The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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- Nombre de pages230
- PrésentationRelié
- FormatGrand Format
- Poids0.371 kg
- Dimensions14,8 cm × 21,6 cm × 2,7 cm
- ISBN978-0-316-01368-0
- EAN9780316013680
- Date de parution01/09/2007
- ÉditeurLittle, Brown and Company
- IllustrateurEllen Forney
Résumé
Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation. Born with a variety of medical problems, he is picked on by everyone but his best friend. Determined to receive a good education, Junior leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Despite being condemned as a traitor to his people and enduring great tragedies, Junior attacks life with wit and humor and discovers a strength inside of himself and discovers a strengh inside of himself that he never knew existed.
Written with raw emotion by acclaimed writer Sherman Alexie, THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN, his first novel for young adults, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one unlucky boy trying to rise above the life everyone expects him to live.
Written with raw emotion by acclaimed writer Sherman Alexie, THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN, his first novel for young adults, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one unlucky boy trying to rise above the life everyone expects him to live.
Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation. Born with a variety of medical problems, he is picked on by everyone but his best friend. Determined to receive a good education, Junior leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Despite being condemned as a traitor to his people and enduring great tragedies, Junior attacks life with wit and humor and discovers a strength inside of himself and discovers a strengh inside of himself that he never knew existed.
Written with raw emotion by acclaimed writer Sherman Alexie, THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN, his first novel for young adults, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one unlucky boy trying to rise above the life everyone expects him to live.
Written with raw emotion by acclaimed writer Sherman Alexie, THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN, his first novel for young adults, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one unlucky boy trying to rise above the life everyone expects him to live.