The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager â a boy who is not a âlegalâ Indian because he was never claimed by his father â who learns the true meaning of terror. About to commit a devastating act, the young man finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He resurfaces in the form of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, and then rides with an Indian tracker in the 19th Century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own contemporary body, he is mightily transformed by all heâs seen. This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant â making us laugh while breaking our hearts. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and again, groundbreaking Alexie.
Categories:
- Politics & Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Reference
- Sociology
Publisher : Grove Press, Black Cat
Author : Alexie, Sherman
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2007-04-17
Number Of Pages : 208
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0802170374
ISBN-13 : 9780802170378
Item weight : 0.46 lb
Dimensions : 0.55 in x 5.51 in x 8.19 in
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