- Paperback: 175 pages
- Publisher: Fiction Collective 2; 1 edition (Sep 4 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1573661090
- ISBN-13: 978-1573661096
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 13.9 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 222 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #504,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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All natural and narrative laws are suspended in the hallucinatory whirl of Jones' cuttingly funny and fantastic third novel. A Blackfoot writer with a wry yet tragic, earthy yet cosmic view of Native American life who combines bizarre murder investigations with whipsaw commentary, Jones (author most recently of All the Beautiful Sinners [BKL Ap 15 03]) imagines the consequences of a law requiring "the restoration of all indigenous flora and fauna to the Great Plains," including the establishment of an autonomous Indian Territory because Indians qualify as fauna. A bowling alley serves as a microcosm for this new New World, and its moody denizens, including manifesto-writing LP Deal; Nickel Eye, the prime suspect in a series of tourist murders; and Cat Stand, once a dairy industry poster girl, try to stay beneath the radar as undercover cops and annoying anthropologists intrude. Caustically surreal in the manner of Hunter Thompson, even William Burroughs, Jones brilliantly and audaciously critiques the ironies inherent in our frontier mythologies, racial stereotypes, and inchoate longings for justice and a meaningful life. Donna Seaman
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"For a while now I have felt that we Native American writers (and I most certainly include myself in the "we") keep writing about the same damn things. Stephen Jones writes with a whole new aesthetic and moral sense. He doesn't sound like any of the rest of us, and I love that." --Sherman Alexie, author of Ten Little Indians
"In The Bird is Gone, Stephen Graham Jones follows his brilliant first novel, The Fast Red Road, with another work of pure originality and quirky brilliance. No unintended clichés or stereotypes here. With Vizenor-like deftness and completely unexpected moves, Jones is taking Native American fiction in a new, necessary direction. We see a literature coming of age in these pages." --Louis Owens, author of Nightland
"The Bird is Gone is one of the most strikingly original novels I've read in a long, long time. And yet, extraordinarily, its originality never overwhelms its humanity. What a thrill it is to see the world through Stephen Jones's sensibility. He is unquestionably one of our finest young writers." --Robert Olen Butler, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
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5.0 out of 5 stars
once again, YES,
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This review is from: The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto (Paperback)
so, not only is this book one of the most original and deftly structured to come along in recent years, but, as has been pointed out: the sentences!! Jones' sentences will take root in your head and grow, bloom, wither, rot, be reincarnated as a time travelling coyote. seriously, get on this one.
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Amazing,
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This review is from: The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto (Paperback)
THE BIRD IS GONE is one of the best, and most orginial books i've ever had the pleasure of reading. his prose, once again, carry their own rhythm and read like poetry. read it, get lost in it, and then read it again, because its magic. mr. jones is without question one of our most talented writers writing today. do yourself a favor and read this book, then read his other two books, because he's just that good.
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Amazing,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto (Paperback)
THE BIRD IS GONE is one of the best, and most orginial books i've ever had the pleasure of reading. his prose, once again, carry their own rhythm and read like poetry. read it, get lost in it, and then read it again, because its magic. mr. jones is without question one of our most talented writers writing today. do yourself a favor and read this book, then read his other two books, because he's just that good.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
once again, YES,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto (Paperback)
so, not only is this book one of the most original and deftly structured to come along in recent years, but, as has been pointed out: the sentences!! Jones' sentences will take root in your head and grow, bloom, wither, rot, be reincarnated as a time travelling coyote. seriously, get on this one.
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