The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems - Softcover

Alexie, Sherman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0914610007 ISBN 13: 9780914610007

Publisher: Hanging Loose Press, 1992

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 this title

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.

Review:

13/16: 1.
13/16: 2.
13/16: 3.
13/16: 4.
Artificial Respiration
At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School
Basketball
The Business Of Fancydancing
Ceremonies
Dead Letter Office
Distances
Eugene Boyd Don't Drink Here Anymore
Evolution
Father Coming Home
The Fausto Poems: 1.
The Fausto Poems: 10.
The Fausto Poems: 11.
The Fausto Poems: 2.
The Fausto Poems: 3.
The Fausto Poems: 4.
The Fausto Poems: 5.
The Fausto Poems: 6.
The Fausto Poems: 7.
The Fausto Poems: 8.
The Fausto Poems: 9.
Futures
Giving Blood
Grandmother
Gravity
Heroes
House Fires
Independence Day
Indian Boy Love Song: 1
Indian Boy Love Song: 2
Indian Boy Love Song: 3
Indian Boy Love Song: 4
Lottery
Love Hard
Misdemeanors
Missing
Morphine And Codeine
Native Hero
No Drugs Or Alcohol Allowed
November 22, 1983
Pawn Shop
Penance
Powwow
The Reservation Cab Driver
Reservation Love Song
Some Assembly Required
Special Delivery
Spokane Tribal Celebration, September 1987
Sudden Death
Transient
Traveling
War All The Time
When I Die
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0914610007
• ISBN 13: 9780914610007
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 84