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Flight
- Author
- Sherman Alexie
- Narrator
- Adam Beach
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 September 2008
- Run Time
- 4 hours 41 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Fantasy
What to expect
From the New York Times bestselling author of multiple award-winning books comes this powerful, fast, and timely story of a troubled foster teenager—a boy who is not a “legal” Indian because he was never claimed by his father—who learns the true meaning of terror.
About to commit a devastating act, young “Zits” finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He resurfaces in the form of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, and then rides with an Indian tracker in the nineteenth-century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own contemporary body, he is mightily transformed by all he has seen.
This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant, making us laugh while breaking our hearts. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and again, groundbreaking Alexie.
Critics Review
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“Right up to the novel’s final sentence, Mr. Alexie succeeds yet again with his ability to pierce to the heart of matters.”
New York Times
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“The quest for revenge becomes a lesson in empathy…Self-mocking without being self-effacing, he seduces us with attitude that seems especially geared to teenage readers.”
Washington Post Book World
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“Adam Beach’s narration is spot-on for a back-talking, unsure, acerbic, wounded teen trying to learn about hate and love…It’s a moving, gripping, engaging, and funny journey.”
AudioFile
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“Reader Adam Beach does a pretty good job capturing Native American cadence through the voice of the adolescent protagonist.”
SoundCommentary.com
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“The captivatingly drawn character of Zits will resonate with teen readers a long time after the last page is turned.”
VOYA
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“Elegantly mixes free-floating young adult cynicism with a charged, idiosyncratic view of American history.”
Publishers Weekly
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“Alexie’s concentrated and mesmerizing novel…asserts that people of all backgrounds are equally capable of good and evil.”
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Details
- Author
- Sherman Alexie
- Narrator
- Adam Beach
- Duration
- 4 hours 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 September 2008
- ISBN
- 9781481544511
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Fantasy
Synopsis
From the New York Times bestselling author of multiple award-winning books comes this powerful, fast, and timely story of a troubled foster teenager—a boy who is not a “legal” Indian because he was never claimed by his father—who learns the true meaning of terror.About to commit a devastating act, young “Zits” finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He resurfaces in the form of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, and then rides with an Indian tracker in the nineteenth-century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own contemporary body, he is mightily transformed by all he has seen.This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant, making us laugh while breaking our hearts. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and again, groundbreaking Alexie.
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