War Dances: Stories and Poems

✍ Scribed by Sherman Alexie

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-us
• Weight: 113 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A bestselling collection of stories and poems from literary icon Sherman AlexieWinner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, War Dances blends short stories, poems, call-and-response, and more into something that only Sherman Alexie could have written. Ordinary men stand at the threshold of profound change, from a story about a famous writer caring for a dying but still willful father, to the tale of a young Indian boy who learns to value his own life by appreciating the deaths of others. Perceptions change, too, as Another Proclamation casts a shadow over Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and Invisible Dog on a Leash limns the heartbreak of shattered childhood illusions. And nostalgia for antiquated technology is tenderly rendered in Ode to Mix Tapes and Ode for Pay Phones.With his versatile voice, Alexie explores love, betrayal, fatherhood, alcoholism, and art in this spirited, soulful, and endlessly entertaining collection, transcending genre boundaries to create...