The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner) - Couverture souple

Alexie, Sherman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0316013692 ISBN 13 : 9780316013697

Editeur : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2009

Synopsis

A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold!  
A National Book Award winner
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner

Bestselling and award winning author Sherman Alexie tells the hearbreaking yet funny story about a boy living on the Spokane Indian Reservation who wants to break free of the life he was destined to live.

Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, based on the author's own experiences and coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

A National Book Award-winning author, poet, and filmmaker, Sherman Alexie is one of the most well-known and beloved literary writers of his generation. His works of fiction, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Reservation Blues, and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, have received numerous awards and citations. He lives in Seattle. Like Thunder Boy Jr., Sherman was named for his father.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The stunningly successful, poignant coming of age story about a boy growing up on an Indian reservation, now in paperback. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie's YA debut, received seven starred reviews, landing on numerous bestseller lists, and winning the 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316013692
• ISBN 13: 9780316013697
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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