Reservation Blues
by Sherman Alexie
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Author: Sherman AlexieEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-02-07
ISBN: 0802141900
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Grove Press
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- ISBN13: 9780802141903
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Book Review: Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
As long as you are capable of holding a "willing suspension of disbelief", this book is amazing. If you are not someone who can just go with what the author says, if you must believe what you read, if you are not okay with the realm of magic and/or fantasy, this is not the book for you! BUT if you are okay with just going with the flow and letting the novel take you where the author and characters want to go, this novel will work wonderfully for you. Alexie's writing is superb, even if some people feel it is for a younger audience.
Summary of Reservation Blues
Winner of the American Book Award and a critically acclaimed national best seller, Reservation Blues continues to find new and adoring readers in academic and popular circles alike. In 1931, Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil, receiving legendary blues skills in return. He went on to record only twenty-nine songs before being murdered on August 16, 1938. In 1992, however, Johnson suddenly reappears on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the misfit storyteller of the Spokane Tribe. When Johnson passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas-lead singer of the rock-and-roll band Coyote Springs-a magical odyssey begins that will take the band from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. Sherman Alexie imaginatively mixes narrative, newspaper excerpts, songs, journal entries, visions, radio interviews, and dreams to explore the effects of Christianity on Native Americans in the late twentieth century. In addition, he examines the impact of cultural assimilation on the relationships between Indian women and Indian men. Reservation Blues is a painful, humorous, and ultimately redemptive symphony about God and indifference, faith and alcoholism, family and hunger, sex and death.Alexie, Sherman Books
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