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Smoke Signals Paperback – July 8, 1998

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hyperion
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 8, 1998
Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0786883928
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0786883929
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 9.25 inches

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Sherman Alexie is the author of, most recently, Blasphemy, stories, from Grove Press, and Face, poetry, from Hanging Loose Press. He is the winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award, the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the 2001 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, and a Special Citation for the 1994 PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction. Smoke Signals, the film he wrote and coproduced, won both the Audience Award and the Filmmakers Trophy at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Alexie lives with his family in Seattle.

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bossmare
Humor with depth of feeling
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2014
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Smoke signals gives a glimpse into life on an American Indian Reservation in the late 20th century...full of wit, humor and tons of sadness, loneliness and futility. Most Americans (non-Native) have no clue what has become of the tortured, defeated descendents of the once self sufficient people who were the original inhabitants of 'our' land.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2016
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WichacpiHoskila
Why I use this film to teach troubled teens
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2003
I work as a psychotherapist with adolescents and young adults. I use "Smoke Signals" with them by assigning them to rent and view the movie, which is always enjoyable because it's witty, humorous, wise, and significant. The movie poses two essential questions: 1) If someone else has mistreated, hurt, abandoned, or disrespected you, is it possible to forgive them if they've NEVER asked forgiveness, never done anything to "put it right," never returned in atonement to undo the damage, and never begtun to deserve it? And 2) if it *is* possible--and it may not be--SHOULD you? Because if you do, doesn't that just make you a willing victim by letting them "get away" with what they did, and pretending the relationship is okay again?
Victor lives in the tension of this dilemma. As a 12-year-old youth, he witnessed the effects of alcohol on his family. His father vascillated between being loving and instantly "turning" to become hostile, violent, and humiliating to the young boy. Victor finds himself becoming more deeply embarrassed by his family's domestic abuse and alcohol use, even defiantly scolding his own father that his favorite Indian is "Nobody...nobody...nobody!"
Victor's mother awakens the next morning to see Victor angrily smashing his father's beer bottles on the back of his father's picup truck (the two things he believes his father loves more than him), and the epiphany stuns the mother, who insists on an immediate end to family drunkenness. Proving Victor's fears true, the father--forced to choose between alcohol and family--flees the family, and never returns. It is within that unchanged arrangement that his father dies, 8 years later, having never returned home.
Victor and his oddball companion Thomas make a side-splittingly funny journey south from Idaho to Phoenix together to make arrangements for the father's possessions, confronted by the racism, peculiarities, and hostilities of the non-Indian "outside" world. Thomas, having never seen the dark side of Victor's father, irritates Victor with incessant stories and tales about the dad's greatness.
Victor, having been so deeply wounded and sold-out by his father's abandonment, has become tough, fierce, aggressive...and lonely. "You can't trust anyone!" he scolds. "People will walk all over you!" His mistrust poisons his friendships, family, and feelings about his father. He's become just another tough guy, hardened by family violence and substance use.
In Phoenix, Victor finds an essential artifact of his father's life: a worn-out photo with "HOME" written sloppily on it. At once, Victor begins to realize that his father's fatal flaw was COWARDICE: the father could confess his sins to new companions a thousand miles from home, but could never return home and undo the damage he'd caused. And so his son has suffered for 8 years. Victor begins to realize that he himself is allowing his actions to damage others, and that it is cowardice, not manly independence, that controls his decision to remain distant and fierce.
Victor slowly begins to repent of his own abusive toughness, cutting his hair in symbolic repentance (traditional hair-cutting is done either in grief, or in repentence for shameful behavior). The process of discovery continues when Thomas angrily confronts Victor about Victor's own behavior: remaining cold and distant from his own mother, acting forceful and ruthless to others, etc.
Victor ends the film by freeing himself of his 8-year hostility toward his unforgiven father, and in that final act of forgiveness we find that the greatest benefit is for VICTOR, who becomes kinder, funnier, gentler, and more confident in his friendships. The significance of forgiveness, he learns, isn't to let someone else off the hook, but to let one's own self off the hook of the pain caused by another, rather than carrying that pain inside for years.
In the final scene, this release of aged anger is represented by the cathartic release of his father's ashes into a river, meaningfully shown in film montage as expanding in power from streams into torrents, much like the energy of either a person enraged or a person set free.
It is at the end of the film that we really begin to understand Thomas' original cryptic remark at the beginning, "Some children aren't really children at all. They're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And some children are just pillars of ash, and they fall apart as soon as you touch them."
Not one single person yet who's watched this film at my urging has disliked it.

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frank crescenti
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Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2014
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Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2014
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dcchambers@hotmail.com
Inspirational and well-done; all young men should see
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 1999
Having seen this movie as a preview on another video, the subject was intriguing. The storyline was a breath of fresh air. The unfolding of the details of the common bond the two friends shared and the understanding of the father's behavior the son came to understand following his death was superbly done.
I found the constant talking of the one friend, although bordering on nerve-racking, was actually humorous in nature and the character was one to love. It was rather like Laurel & Hardy, straight and funny guy tactics, rarely seen today without one character overpowering the other.
I would highly recommend this to the younger set and young adult males who are having problems with relations with their fathers.

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judygarlandheartbreaker.com
Mis-fire movie script
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2010
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Let me begin by saying I like this author's prose.
His voice is accessible, upbeat and fun, and he knows a great deal about
Native Americans, being one himself.

That said, I found this screenplay diffuse and slack.
Couldn't get with the characters or situation
and put the book aside halfway through.

I can recommend his book of short stories, War Dances.

John Meyer, NYC

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Lynda Scheer
A good day to be indigenous . . .
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2005
Not surprisingly, as in any culture, there are many voices speaking for and about American Indians, representing them from many points of view. Alexie's is one, and the director of "Smoke Signals," Chris Eyre, is another. Reading the extensive notes at the end of this screenplay, where Alexie describes the creative decisions that went into the making of the movie, you can see how each of them pushed for a different vision of the material. And the end result is a moving and humorous film about damage done and the journey that leads to healing - a theme certainly appropriate to a story about American Indians but also relevant to people of all cultures.

The debate among Alexie's readers is expressed dramatically in the movie, "The Business of Fancydancing," in which a writer who makes a career for himself outside the reservation (not unlike Alexie himself) is received coldly by old friends who feel that he's betrayed his people. The violence in that film (against a stranded white tourist) is a darker vision of Indian rage, the seeds of which are represented in the character of Victor, in "Smoke Signals." Looking at just these two stories from the same author, you can see something of the competing points of view that can produce either praise or derision for this film, where "It's a good day to die" is wryly transposed into the wonky observation, "It's a good day to be indigenous."

I can think of really only one reason for reading this book. For screenwriters, it reveals how a screenplay is transformed in the process of making a movie, in this case by the director, the performers, Miramax's Harvey Weinstein, preview audiences, and in particular the editor. Scenes were shifted or eliminated, and dialogue has been added to patch over some of these structural changes. The result is arguably a very different film from the one Alexie originally wrote.

Anyone else should simply buy or rent the DVD. And then follow it up by reading the wonderful collection of stories the film is based on, "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven." Also recommended: Adrian Louis' darkly humorous and angry novel set on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, "Skins."

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Spannung, Schwarzer Humor und ein unglaublich schweres Leben
Reviewed in Germany on January 28, 2014
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Es soll dieses Buch auch als Film geben. Leider war meine Suche danach bisher erfolglos. Das Buch war eine bessere alternative. Man taucht ab in lustige als auch traurige Geschichten des Lebens, die offenbar geschwänger ist von Hoffnungslosigkeit und der Suche nach der vergangenen Stärke und Kraft eines Kriegers. Ich hätte nun gerne zum Vergleich den Film gesehen. Denn dieses Buch zu verfilmen, stelle ich mir sehr schwer vor. Ein Hoch auf den Autor für seine Art des schreibens und der Darstellung indianischen Lebens im 20. Jahrundert.
Kann man es empfehlen? Das ist in diesem Fall eine schwierige Frage. Stehst du auf schwarzen Humor? Stehst du auf Geschichten die depressiv machen können? Stehst du auf Geschichten die Fragen fürs Leben aufwerfen? Stehst du auf Geschichten Cocktails bei denen man nicht mehr genau weiss wohin wer gehört? Jap dann ist es genau das was du suchst.

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Liza Z.
... did this play with my Grade 10s and they loved it. Although it was written some time ago
Reviewed in Canada on November 30, 2016
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I did this play with my Grade 10s and they loved it. Although it was written some time ago, the themes are extremely relevant, the writing clever and quick. Serious issues and gravity are balanced with humour, and the gentle rendering of the characters makes them human, imperfect and easy to relate to. A wonderful book for anyone struggling with loss, it provides strength and hope.

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Reviewed in Canada on March 9, 2016
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Condition was as described. Happy with my purchase.

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D. Schwantes
Geschichten eines Indianers in den USA von heute (90er)
Reviewed in Germany on March 9, 2010
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Hier die deutsche Übersetzung des Originals: "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" von 1993. Eine gelungene Übersetzung. Atmosphärisch dich aber konkret erzählt Alexie seine fast biographischen Geschichten, die auch seperat gelesen werden können. Der lockere Erzählton verrät seine Nähe zur US-Gesellschaft, in der er aufgewachsen ist. Gleichzeitig spiegeln die erzählerischen Bilder sein indianisches Erbe. Sehr traurige und lustige Geschichten.

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