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Quality
So me the bleeding heart liberal wasnt so in touch with the sensitivity and courage of this book
I noticed a surrealistic sometimes tongueincheek quality to alexies work
They were always good but with the sin eaters and especially by indian country they were amazing
Competitiveness
He lays simple words on a page that open up a complex world of irony humor and pain that is lived by a 14year old indian misfit
Its a collection of stories about modern day indians living in and out of the modern world
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indian, short, good and american. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 1538.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 148 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 27 2021.
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Beautiful language at times almost free association reveals a potential scenario of frightening exploitation
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The story south by southwest follows seymour and salmon boy on a nonviolent killing spree
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Even though you know what you are searching for the path to get there is often hidden and confusing
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Throughout this collection of nine short stories these characters find themselves in situations ranging from the mundane to the ironic to the surreal an affair amid an unsatisfying interracial marriage a romantic encounter revealing an unexpected side of john wayne or an apocalyptic scenario of violence and perhaps cultural appropriation
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In one of my favorite stories south by southwest a white man named seymour takes off with an overweight indian called salmon boy on a nonviolent killing spree across the west
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Alexie doesnt flinch away from taboo subjects like sex race and violence but he addresses them with sensitivity and humanity
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He has an uncanny knack for finding moments of tenderness in the most impossible placesmixed perhaps into a story about infidelity and suicide or even amid the horror of ethnic violence
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His characters are not victims but theyre not superstars either alexie uses satire to unburden us from his characters racism
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