The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems

Poetry. Fiction. Published in 1992, well before Sherman Alexie became well-known as the screenwriter for the film SMOKE SIGNALS, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING has now been turned into a film with none other than Alexie himself in his directorial debut. The screenplay for the movie, which recently won the Audience Award at the San Francisco Film Festival, is loosly adapted from this book. Many film-goers will want to visit or revisit the elegaic poems and stories that set the tone for the film itself. "In an age when many 'Native American' writers publish books that prove their ignorance of the real Indian world, Sherman Alexie paints painfully honest visions of our beautiful and brutal lives"—Adrian C. Louis. Collects Short Stories And Poems From The Author, Focusing On Life On A Native American Reservation In Eastern Washington State. Distances -- Traveling -- 13/16 -- Distances -- Translated From The American -- Morphine And Codeine -- Grandmother -- The Fausto Poems -- Sudden Death -- Penance -- House Fires -- November 22, 1983 -- Love Hard -- Transient -- When I Die -- Futures -- Dead Letter Office -- Evolution -- Special Delivery -- Evolution -- At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School -- Artificial Respiration -- Powwow -- Independence Day -- Indian Boy Love Songs -- Reservation Love Song -- Some Assembly Required -- Lottery -- Crazy Horse Dreams -- Father Coming Home -- War All The Time -- Misdemeanors -- No Drugs Or Alcohol Allowed -- The Business Of Fancydancing -- Heroes -- Missing -- Ceremonies -- Native Hero -- Spokane Tribal Celebration, September 1987 -- Eugene Boyd Don't Drink Here Anymore -- The Reservation Cab Driver -- Basketball -- Giving Blood -- Pawn Shop -- Gravity. By Sherman Alexie. A collection of 5 short stories and 40 poems focusing on life on a Native American reservation in eastern Washington state, "that deals comically and poignantly with basketball, convenience stores, cars and other artifacts of everyday life"--New York Times, Notable Books of the Year 1992, December 6, 1992.