From Barnes & NobleSherman Alexie is now justly hailed as "a virtuoso of the short story." We first honored this talented Native American writer in 1993 for his debut fiction collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
Publishers WeeklyThe National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award-winner's latest work combines 15 classics ("The Toughest Indian in the World"; "Salt"; "Indian Education") with 15 recent stories of varying length and tenor, and the result should attract new converts and invite back longtime fans. Heralded for his candid depictions of life on a reservation in the Pacific Northwest, versatile Alexie traverses familiar territory while also branching out. A son envisions his dead father's "impossibly small corpse" peering out of his morning omelet in the page-long "Breakfast.
