Alexie, Sherman,  1966- <br/><br/>
War dances / 
by Sherman Alexie. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Grove Press,  c2009. 
 - 209 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>""The Limited"" -- Breaking and entering -- ""Go, Ghost, Go"" -- Bird-watching at night -- ""After building the Lego 'Star Wars' Ultimate Death Star"" -- War dances -- ""The theology of reptiles"" -- Catechism -- ""Ode to small-town sweethearts"" -- The senator's son -- ""Another proclamation"" -- Invisible dog on a leash -- ""Home of the braves"" -- The ballad of Paul Nonetheless -- ""On airplanes"" -- Big bang theory -- ""Ode for pay phones"" -- Fearful symmetry -- ""Ode to mix tapes"" -- Roman Catholic haiku -- ""Looking glass"" -- Salt -- ""Food chain."" 
<br/><br/> A collection of short stories includes the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to care for his distant, American Indian father who is slowly dying. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0802119190 0802144896 (pbk.) 9780802119193 9780802144898 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011284414 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Authors--Fiction.<br/>Coeur d'Alene Indians--Fiction.<br/>Fathers and sons--Fiction.<br/>Indians of North America--Fiction.<br/>Short stories, American.<br/>Spokane Indians--Fiction.<br/>Terminally ill--Fiction.<br/>Short stories.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Short stories.