Sherman Alexie - War Dances

Start: Wed, 11/11/2009 - 7:00pm

Fresh off his National Book Award win, Sherman Alexie delivers a heartbreaking and hilariouscollection of stories that explores the precarious balance betweenself-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world atlarge. With unparalleled insight intot he minds of artists, laborers, fathers,husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brinkof exceptional change. Sherman Alexie is the author of The Lone Ranger andTonto Fist fight in Heaven, Reservation Blues, Indian Killer, The Toughest Indian in the World, Ten Little Indians, and The Absolutely True Diary of aPart-time Indian. He wrote and directed The Business of Fancydancing and alsowrote the award-winning screenplay for Smoke Signals. (And he's a favorite of several members of the Left Bank Books family.)

Location:

Mad Art Gallery
2727 S. 12th St.
Saint Louis, Missouri 63118