The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto
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| The Bird Is Gone: A Manifesto | |
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| Author | Stephen Graham Jones |
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| Cover artist | Jacket design by |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | [[]] |
| Publisher | Fiction Collective 2 |
| Publication date | August 1, 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 175 pp (first edition, paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-8032-2605-5(first edition, paperback) |
| Preceded by | All The Beautiful Sinners |
| Followed by | Bleed Into Me |
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[edit] History
[edit] Plot summary
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
[edit] Characters in The Bird Is Gone: A Manifesto
- LP Deal
- Naitche
- Gauche
- Mary Boy
- Cat Stand
- Courtney Peltdowne
- Own82
- Back Iron
- Denim Horse
- Nickel Eye
- Eddie Dial
- Chassis Jones
- Detective Blue Plume
- Bacteen
- Maddie Bride
- Horns in Back
- The Lone Ranger
- Tonto
- Trans-Annie
- Natty Cooper
- Virginia Dare
[edit] Motifs
[edit] Subtext
[edit] Awards
The novel won the following awards:
- Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction[1]
[edit] U.S. editions
[edit] See also
- The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong (2000)
- All The Beautiful Sinners (2003)
- Bleed Into Me (2005)
- Demon Theory (2006)
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official site of Stephen Graham Jones
- A Reading of Parody as Resistance in Stephen Graham Jones's The Bird Is Gone] (A Paper Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of North Dakota State University by Stephen Chris Disrud)
