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 enlarge | Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Category: Book
List Price: $13.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 80903
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.7
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B0018SWABU
Publication Date: April 17, 2007
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 Powerful July 5, 2008
Alexie tackles some tough topics. This book is in no way easy, but it is a great and ultimately very satisfying book.
I was blown away June 16, 2008
"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 first started it, and I was kept fascinated all the way through. A beautiful story, really wonderful. Read "Flight" and come away enriched.
 reqired summer reading for my high schooler June 15, 2008
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.
Yes, I bought it for the cover and it was well worth it April 21, 2008
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 humor 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.
Another winner by Alexie April 6, 2008
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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