First Indian on the Moon

Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press. Fine. 1993. First Edition; Seventh Printing. Paperback. Fine in Wraps: flawless. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the mildest wear and minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Virtually "As New". NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9 x 6 x 0.35 inches). Language: English. Weight: 7 ounces. . Trade Paperback. Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. His best-known book is The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993) , a collection of short stories. It was adapted as the film Smoke Signals (1998) , for which he also wrote the screenplay. His first novel, Reservation Blues, received a 1996 American Book Award. His first young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) , is a semi-autobiographical novel that won the 2007 U. S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people (read by Alexie himself). His 2009 collection of short stories and poems, War Dances, won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Alexie's poetry, short stories, and novels explore themes of despair, poverty, violence, and alcoholism in the lives of Native American people, both on and off the reservation. They are lightened by wit and humor. Alexie weaves a curiously soft-blended tapestry of humor, humility, pride and metaphysical provocation out of the hard realities: the tin-shack lives, the alcohol dreams, the bad luck and burlesque disasters, and the self-destructive courage of his characters. 'First Indian on the Moon' is a great introduction to the poetry and prose of Sherman Alexie. Originally published in 1993, Alexie challenges boundaries of race, identity, and issues with substance abuse, through beautifully detailed and brilliantly delivered streams of literary consciousness. One feels the haunting connection between his life in Wellpenit, Washington, as an enrolled member of the Spokane/Couer d'Alene tribes, as well as the struggle to find place and sense of self in the urban world. The passages evoke feelings of heartbreak, justified anger and great catharsis. Alexie names the pain and gives a voice to people who do not always have enough words to speak up or have had the words drummed out of them by highly oppressive circumstances. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 116 pages .