The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto

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The Bird Is Gone: A Manifesto

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First Edition Cover
Author Stephen Graham Jones
Cover artist Jacket design by
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Fiction Collective 2
Publication date
August 1, 2003
Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages 175 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN 1573661090 (first edition, paperback)
Preceded by All The Beautiful Sinners
Followed by Bleed Into Me

The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto is a murder mystery by Stephen Graham Jones. It was published in 2003 by Fiction Collective 2. The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto is Jones' third novel. [1]

Stephen Graham Jones Blackfeet Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction

Stephen Graham Jones is a Blackfeet Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. Although his recent work is often classified as horror, he is celebrated for applying more "literary" stylings to a variety of speculative genres, as well as his prolificacy, having published 22 books under the age of 50.

Contents

Characters

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

Awards

The novel won the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction [2]

See also

<i>The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong</i> book by Stephen Graham Jones

The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong serves as Stephen Graham Jones's debut novel written in 2000. He only started writing the book after being introduced to a Houghton-Mifflin editor at a party, and, for some reason, began telling a complicated lie about a book he had written. So, he went home that night and started it.

<i>Bleed Into Me</i> book by Stephen Graham Jones

Bleed Into Me is a novel by Stephen Graham Jones and is part of Native Storiers: A series of American Narratives.

<i>Demon Theory</i> book by Stephen Graham Jones

Demon Theory is a novel written by Native American author Stephen Graham Jones. Written like a screenplay, it was published in 2006.

Notes

  1. Jones, Stephen Graham (2003). The Bird Is Gone: A Manifesto. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
  2. IndependentPublisher.com

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