Extra Indians / Eric Gansworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gansworth, Eric, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truck drivers--Fiction.

Truck drivers.

Japanese--America--Fiction.

Japanese.

Stereotypes (Social psychology)--Fiction.

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Difference (Social psychology)--Fiction.

Difference (Social psychology).

Minnesota--Fiction.

Minnesota.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Milkweed Editions, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Every winter, Tommy Jack McMorsey watches the meteor showers in northern Minnesota. On the long haul from Texas to Minnesota, Tommy encounters a deluded Japanese tourist determined to find the buried ransom money from the movie Fargo. When the Japanese tourist dies of exposure in Tommy Jack's care, a media storm erupts and sets off a series of journeys into Tommy Jack's past as he remembers the horrors of Vietnam, a love affair, and the suicide of his closest friend, Fred Howkowski. Exploring with great insight and wit the ways images, stereotypes, and depictions intersect with, <I

Contents:

Extra Indians; PROLOGUE:Coming Attractions; ACT ONE:Lights; chapter one:Fall Out; chapter two:Signal Fade; chapter three:Bit Part; ACT TWO:Camera; chapter four:Sound Track; chapter five:Live Feed; chapter six:Broad Cast; ACT THREE:Action; chapter seven:Call Back; chapter eight:Voice Over; chapter nine:Head Shot; EPILOGUE:Credits Roll; Author's Note; About the Author; more books from milkweed editions; milkweed editions

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-57131-820-8

OCLC:

722441614