{"product_id":"blasphemy-new-and-selected-stories-9780802121752","title":"Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Alexie once again reasserts himself as one the most compelling contemporary practitioners of the short story. In\u003ci\u003e Blasphemy\u003c\/i\u003e, the author demonstrates his talent on nearly every page. . . . Will appeal to fans of Junot Diaz, George Saunders, and readers new to Alexie will find this enriching collection to be the perfect introduction to a formidable literary voice. . . . [Alexie] illuminates the lives of his characters in unique, surprising, and, ultimately, hopeful ways.\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Told in [Alexie's] irreverent, unforgettable voice . . . You'll feel you've been transported inside the soul of a deeply wounded people. But they are a people too comfortable in their brown skins to allow those wounds to break them. . . . With irony and sardonic wit, the Native men and women in Alexie's imagination find a way forward, and they endure. . . . [A] great triumph.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSherman Alexie's stature as a writer of stories, poetry, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed fiction throughout the last two decades--from\u003ci\u003e The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e to his most recent PEN\/Faulkner Award-winning \u003ci\u003eWar Dances\u003c\/i\u003e--have established him as a star in contemporary American literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring, versatile, funny, and outrageous Alexie showcases his many talents in \u003ci\u003eBlasphemy\u003c\/i\u003e, where he unites fifteen beloved classics with sixteen new stories in one sweeping anthology for devoted fans and first-time readers. Included here are some of his most esteemed tales, including \"What You Pawn I Will Redeem,\" in which a homeless Indian man quests to win back a family heirloom; \"This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,\" a road-trip morality tale; \"The Toughest Indian in the World,\" about a night shared between a writer and a hitchhiker; and his most recent, \"War Dances,\" about a man grappling with sudden hearing loss in the wake of his father's death. Alexie's new stories are fresh and quintessential, about donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, a twenty-four-hour Asian manicure salon, good and bad marriages, and all species of warriors in America today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn indispensable Alexie collection, \u003ci\u003e Blasphemy\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us, on every thrilling page, why Alexie is one of our greatest contemporary writers and a true master of the short story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexie is a poet, novelist, and screenwriter. He has won the Pen\/Faulkner Award, Stranger Genius Award in Literature, \u003ci\u003e Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e-Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children's Literature, and the Malamud Award.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50642317410578,"sku":"9780802121752","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dbc127cb-8f3b-4a04-b1b9-ee7a634ae879.jpg?v=1764072576","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blasphemy-new-and-selected-stories-9780802121752","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}