Hotline Healers: An Almost Browne Novel

Hanover and London: University Press of New England - Wesleyan Univeersity Press, 1997. First Printing . Hard Back. Fine/Near Fine. 6" x 9. 172 Pages. In this collection of eleven linked stories, Vizenor brings back one of his most popular characters, Almost Browne, in full trickester force. Born in the back of a hatchback, almost on the White Earth Reseervaiton, this crossblood storyteller sells blank books --- some autographed (by him) with such names as Isaac Singer, Geoffrey Chaucer, N. Scott Momaday, and Jesus Christ; projects laser demons over the reseervaiton; lectdures inn the Transethnic Situations Department at the University of California; is crowned Indian Princess of the University Of Oklahoma by posing as the mature senior Penny Birdwind (who majors in native animations and simulations) and delivering a heartstopping. lip-synched renditionn of Peggy Lee's Fever; and much more. The stories feature many members of the Browne family, including Grandmother Wink, who can drop an insect in flight with a single puff of her poison breath, and great-uncle Gesture, the acudenturist who creates false teeth with tricky smiles from the Naanabgozho Express, the free railroad train he runs on the Reservation. Vizenor's work, drawing upon the trickster tradition in Native American culture, is among the most radical in Native American writing today. Academics of all stripes, but particularly anthropologists, champions of victimry, Richar Nixon, and many others come under the last Vizenor's satiric tongue in this hilarious, often surreal collection.