The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems

Alexie, Sherman

ISBN 10: 0914610007 / ISBN 13: 9780914610007

Published by Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, NY, 1992

About this Item

Stated First Edition with no other printings listed. Softcover with light wear, scuffing on edges, light bumping, short tear on side of front wrap, slight soiling and scratching, sunfading on spine and around edges. Faint spots of soiling and staining on side of text block. Slight rubbing on some pages. Bumping and short tear on edge of one page only. Binding is tight. Seller Inventory # 033027

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and ...

Publisher: Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, NY

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Poetry. Fiction. Published in 1992, well before Sherman Alexie became well-known as the screenwriter for the film SMOKE SIGNALS, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING has now been turned into a film with none other than Alexie himself in his directorial debut. The screenplay for the movie, which recently won the Audience Award at the San Francisco Film Festival, is loosly adapted from this book. Many film-goers will want to visit or revisit the elegaic poems and stories that set the tone for the film itself. "In an age when many 'Native American' writers publish books that prove their ignorance of the real Indian world, Sherman Alexie paints painfully honest visions of our beautiful and brutal lives"—Adrian C. Louis.

About the Author:

Sherman Alexie's poems, fiction, essays and films have won him an international following since his first book, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING, was published in 1992. SMOKE SIGNALS, the film he adapted from one of his short stories and co-produced, enlarged his audience still further. Alexie's awards include the Stranger Genius Award in Literature, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature in Fiction, and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature as well as honors and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Foundation, and a citation as "One of 20 Best American Novelists Under the Age of 40" from Granta magazine. An enrolled Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, Alexie lives in Seattle with his wife and sons.