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When Alexie is at his best, his stories function at a profoundly sad level, where broken down characters are broken down even more, but are fierce-willed enough to attempt Phoenix-like transitions. Unfortunately, the weakest stories appear first, where characters and situations seem far too contrived or forced, the dialogue wooden, and questions or exclamatory sentences appear annoyingly in bunches. In the last half of the book, a married couple, once intensely in love but now lost in life's routines, deal with infidelity ("Do You Know Where I Am?"); a bright basketball prospect attempts a comeback--twenty years after giving up the game ("Whatever Happened to Frank Snake Church?"); and a transient Indian finds his grandmother's regalia in a pawn shop and seeks to quickly raise the lofty purchase price ("What You Pawn I Will Redeem"). Brilliant turns of phrase abound, such as ceremonies being "pitiful cries to a disinterested God," or when a gym rat plays against "Basketball-Democrats who came to the court alone and ran with anybody and Basketball-Republicans who traveled in groups of five and only ran with each other." Ten Little Indians is an uneven collection, but contains some significant, memorable stories. --Michael Ferch
| AUTHOR: | Sherman Alexie |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Grove Press |
| ISBN: | 0802117449 |
| TYPE: | Fiction, Fiction - General, Indians of North America, Literary, Literature: Classics, Native Americans, Short Stories (single author), Short stories |
| MEDIA: | Hardcover |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Ten Little Indians
Writer good, stories not good I have read and enjoyed much of Sherman Alexie's work, but unfortunately the stories in this volume are not up to par. I was constantly wondering while reading them if some of these are very early efforts, (they remind me of college freshman level writing) which were dug up for publication. I expect better from Sherman Alexie.
Also, he seems to be rehashing the same themes and ideas that have been used in so much of his other work.
One of the stories entitled, What You Pawn I Will Redeem, is a great story. The others really were disappointing in both style and content.
Great Book.
I thought the stories in this collection were all worth reading, although some were better than others. Other reviewers have said Alexie is getting redundant, well, I don't know about that. I enjoyed his book, Indian Killer, but I haven't read all his other short stories. I loved his perspective on love, success, terrorism, and the women's movement, and found that it was not so different from my own, a woman of similar age who grew up in an Italian-Irish-American household where the only books in the house were mine, and the people were, in my opinion, way too accepting of their "station in life," whatever the hell that is. So I felt like I was reading a book written by a Native American cousin of mine--when some white folks were here killing his ancestors, others were back in Europe starving mine, regardless of being the same color. Now, we all have to deal with the same issues, fear of terrorism, adultery, losing a child, failing our dreams, making it in the dominant culture, being ourselves. Anyway, I recommend this book. It's not perfect, but it shines.
An important perspective!
I enjoy this writer! He is so unique and so badly needed in understanding our complex culture. Why? Because we Americans rarely get a glimpse of Native American life as it is lived today. Enter Sherman Alexie. If this guy doesn't fill you in, I don't know who will. A thoroughly sound and damned good writer he is! Sherman Alexie should be required reading in any contemporary American Lit. class. Bless you, Sherman!