OFFSITE AUTHOR EVENT - SHERMAN ALEXIE: WAR DANCES

Sherman Alexie Presentation is sold out. The booksigning is still open.

You can purchase a book by Sherman Alexie from Changing Hands and come to the Heard at 7:30 pm to meet Sherman and get your book signed.

SHERMAN ALEXIE: WAR DANCES 6PM

National Book Award winner and bestselling author, film director, screenwriter, comedian and poet Sherman Alexie returns with his signature mix of biting wit and poignant insight to consider modern relationships from the most diverse angles in War Dances (Grove, $23). Alexie delivers a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explore the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large. With unparalleled insight into the minds of artists, laborers, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change. In a bicoastal journey through the consequences of both simple and monumental life choices, Alexie introduces these personal worlds as they transform beyond return.

This event will be held at:
The Heard Museum
2301 Central Avenue, Phoenix, 85004
in conjunction with NU (Native & You)

PLEASE NOTE: Sherman Alexie Presentation has sold out. The booksigning is still open.

You can purchase a book by Sherman Alexie from Changing Hands and come to the Heard at 7:30 pm to meet Sherman and get your book signed.

ARRIVE EARLY! The museum will be open with free admission, and you can enjoy the music of Tierra del Fuego in the courtyard. The Cafe will offer seating for dinner until 8:30 p.m. The Shop and Berlin Gallery will be open until 8 pm. All of Sheman Alexie's previous books are available for purchase at Changing Hands, and will be available at the Changing Hands table at the Heard Museum on October 16.

CAN'T ATTEND? If you'd like an autographed copy of War Dances or any other books by Sherman Alexie, please call us at 480.730.0205 to pre-pay and we'll have one or more copies signed and reserved for you. We can ship them too!

War Dances (Hardcover)

By Sherman Alexie

$23.00

ISBN-13: 9780802119193
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Grove Press, 10/01/2009

Fresh off his National Book Award win, Sherman Alexie delivers a heart-breaking and hilarious collection of stories that explore the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large. With unparalleled insight into the minds of artists, laborers, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change.

In a bicoastal journey through the consequences of both simple and monumental life choices, Alexie introduces us to these personal worlds as they transform beyond return. In the title story, a famous writer must decide how to care for his distant father who is slowly dying a "natural Indian death" from alcohol and diabetes, just as he learns that he himself may have a brain tumor. Alexie dissects a vintage-clothing store owner's failing marriage and his subsequent courtship of a married photographer in various airports across the country; what happens when a politician's son commits an unforgivable hate crime; and how a young boy learns his self-worth while writing for the obituary department of his local newspaper.

Brazen and wise, War Dances takes us to the heart of what it means to be human. The new beginnings, successes, mistakes, and regrets that make up our daily lives are laid bare in this wide-ranging and provocative new work that is Alexie at the height of his powers.

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