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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780802170378
ISBN number: 0802170374
Label: Grove Press, Black Cat
Manufacturer: Grove Press, Black Cat
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 208
Printing Date: April 17, 2007
Publishing house: Grove Press, Black Cat
Sale Popularity Level: 5787
Studio: Grove Press, Black Cat
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The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his very first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager — a boy who is not a “legal” Indian because he was never claimed by his father — 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 he’s seen. This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant — 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.
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"Flight": a surprisingly sophisticated book that can be read in an afternoon. Alexie uses his classic prose that takes the reader into a world that is real and haunting. Less than 200 pages in length, yet complex- tackles the issues of hate, love, revenge, destiny, power. Narrated by a teenager who is half-Indian, half-Irish, he goes on a journey through time where he inhabits the bodies of an Indian child, an Indian tracker, an FBI agent, and a pilot in order to learn a crucial lesson- but is the lesson learned, and learned in time?
I had no idea where this book was going when I very first started it, and I was kept fascinated all the way through. A beautiful story, really wonderful. Read "Flight" and come away enriched.
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good book.
makes you thing about why people think about death and religion.
this copy had an uneven cut long edge so make turning pages a bit irritating.
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Ya know, it was one of those things. I've collected non-fiction Native American books for for close to two decades. They remain largely ignored. I spied Flight on the shelf for $13.00!, not knowing if Sherman was a woman or a man, Indian, European or what he or she was about to teach me. The concept was brilliant, the humour made me laugh out loud and I came out of it humbled and grateful. Very short, sweet and to the point; this novella taught me something about what it might be like to be fatherless, a Northwest Native American shunned and stunned by what the America of the Starbucks's generation has become. Alexie has a great sense of humour and I suppose, if he didn't he might be one dead or bitter alcoholic.
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I love Sherman Alexie. He is an accomplished writer, poet, stand-up comedian, screenwriter, director, and editor. I love his poetry. I love his unique style. He can make you laugh and cry at the same time. This quirky book is a fast entertaining and interesting read. The young man in the story is about to commit an extreme act of violence when he finds himself yanked into time and into the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights era. He continues to travel through time inhabiting several different bodies. When he finally comes back to his own body he has learned a lot along the way, and so have we--vicariously, through him. He is transformed by what he's seen and we are transformed in the reading of this book. This is Sherman's shamanistic magic and he puts it to good effect in this book.
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Flight by Sherman Alexie is a very nice escape from the usual high school literature taught in classes. IT reads much easier and quicker than many other books, due t6 its target audience of teens, which could be interpreted by some as being boring. I do not think this, with Alexie's story of Zits, an "orphaned" half-Indian teenager in Washington state who gets shipped from jail to jail and foster home to foster home.
After one escape from jail, Zits meets a white boy named "justice" who convinces him to rob a bank. While in the process, Zits has an epiphany and gets transported into multiple circumstances ranging from a remorseful flight instructor, to an FBI agent, to an Indian at Little Bighorn, to a homeless man near his home town.
Alexie's writing style is one that reads very easily compared to much clasic literature, and the story is compelling, so to keep the reader reading. It is however on the short side of books, and a relatively quick read, so one may be better off checking it out from a library rather than investing in their own personal copy. One other criticism of the book is that there are many literary cliches placed throughout the book, which some readers may find annoying and repulsive. Overall, it was a good book and was worth reading, and I hope Alexie Continues to write books of this genre.
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