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.

The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems

Literature & Fiction

ALEXIE, SHERMAN

United States

Hanging Loose Press

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Hershon, Robert

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The Business of Fancydancing

Ninth collection by a poet whose work James Schuyler applauded, noble grace, dramatic and personal.

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