{"id":2699,"date":"2018-11-25T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T00:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2018-11-25T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T00:03:07","slug":"review-the-lone-ranger-and-tonto-fistfight-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2699","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics were nearly universal in their acclaim for <em>The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven<\/em> when it first appeared, and the book has held its reputation and has been republished several times. In my opinion, the critics nailed it.\u00a0 Sherman Alexie&#8217;s perspective encompasses the universal experiences of society&#8217;s forgotten and the specific context of Native American Reservation life. He can sling poetic prose like few others.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a series of potent shots of rotgut language that appall and enlighten with unbalancing power.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the kind of book that one can go on a bender with or nurse over time.\u00a0 One way or another, I encourage readers to try some.<\/p>\n<p>Strongly Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics were nearly universal in their acclaim for The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven when it first appeared, and the book has held its reputation and has been republished several times. In my opinion, the critics nailed it.\u00a0 Sherman Alexie&#8217;s perspective encompasses the universal experiences of society&#8217;s forgotten and the specific context of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}