War Dances
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War Dances $3.95 Fresh off his National Book Award win, Sherman Alexie delivers a heart-breaking and hilarious collection of stories that explore the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large. With unparalleled insight into the minds of artists, laborers, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with ordinary men on the brink of exceptional change. In a bicoastal journey through the consequences of both simple and monumental life choices, Alexie introduces us to these personal worlds as they transform beyond return. In the title story, a famous writer must decide how to care for his distant father who is slowly dying a "natural Indian death" from alcohol and diabetes, just as he learns that he himself may have a brain tumor. Alexie dissects a vintage-clothing store owner’s failing marriage and his subsequent courtship of a married photographer in various airports across the country; what happens when a politician’s son commits an unforgivable hate crime; and how a young boy learns his self-worth while writing for the obituary department of his local newspaper. Brazen and wise, War Dances takes us to the heart of what it means to be human. The new beginnings, successes, mistakes, and regrets that make up our daily lives are laid bare in this wide-ranging and provocative new work that is Alexie at the height of his powers. |
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Confederate President Davis dancing on a US flag, 1862 Photo Mugs Wedding guests, including Confederate President Davis, dancing on a US flag, Murfreesboro TN, 1862. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration…. |
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Dancing On Us Flag Photo Mugs Southerners dance on the Union flag at a wedding where Bishop Polk officiated. …. |
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Danding The Demi-Lune Photo Mugs Two dancers – she wearing the attractive fashion of the day – perform the demi-lune in a dance hall on the eve of World War One, which seems to have eclipsed the half-moon dance….. |
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Dark Blue World [VHS] $14.95 Director Jan Sverák’s Dark Blue World embraces sentimentality with such brio it is hard to resist. The film relays the little-known WWII story of Czech fighter pilots who escaped the Nazi occupation of their country to fight in Britain’s Royal Air Force. Those who survived the battles were placed in work camps upon their return home by a then-entrenched, paranoid Communist regime. Sverák (Kolya)… |