The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1994

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie  TRADE PAPERBACK [1994] HARPER PERENNIAL  Book is in excellent condition.   Cover has minor edge wear; tiny sealed split to corner on back.    Otherwise like new.   In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spoke Indian Reservation. These 22 interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep. Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads "From the Death Bed of James Many Horses