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The Fast Red Road. A Plainsong.
Stephen Graham Jones
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Description for The Fast Red Road. A Plainsong.
Paperback. This novel plunders the myth and pop culture surrounding the American Indian, by borrowing and distorting the rigid conventions of the traditional Western. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 221 x 25. Weight in Grams: 452.
The Fast Red Road - A Plainsong is a novel which plunders, in a gleeful, two-fisted fashion, the myth and pop-culture surrounding the American Indian. It is a story fueled on pot fumes and blues, borrowing and distorting the rigid conventions of the traditional western. Indians, cowboys, and outlaws are as interchangeable as their outfits; men strike poses from Gunsmoke, and horses are traded for Trans-Ams. Pidgin, the half-blood protagonist, inhabits a world of illusion - of aliens, ghosts, telekinesis, and water-pistol violence - where television offers redemption, and 'the Indian always gets it up the ass.' Having escaped the ... Read more
The Fast Red Road - A Plainsong is a novel which plunders, in a gleeful, two-fisted fashion, the myth and pop-culture surrounding the American Indian. It is a story fueled on pot fumes and blues, borrowing and distorting the rigid conventions of the traditional western. Indians, cowboys, and outlaws are as interchangeable as their outfits; men strike poses from Gunsmoke, and horses are traded for Trans-Ams. Pidgin, the half-blood protagonist, inhabits a world of illusion - of aliens, ghosts, telekinesis, and water-pistol violence - where television offers redemption, and 'the Indian always gets it up the ass.' Having escaped the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
305
Condition
New
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Normal, United States
ISBN
9781573660884
SKU
V9781573660884
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Ref
99-1
About Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is an assistant professor of English at Texas Tech University. He is the author of the novels The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong, All the Beautiful Sinners, and The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto.
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