The stories often refer to plot events in other stories, meaning that in some respects, the collection is more like a novel than a traditional book of short stories. Many central characters - most notably Victor Joseph, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, and Norma Many Horses - appear in multiple stories. Published in 1993, The Lone Ranger and Tonto includes 22 stories about life on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Alexie followed up The Business of Fancydancing with this collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, which consists of stories that Alexie had mostly written prior to Fancydancing. His work received critical acclaim and attracted a great deal of attention from mainstream publishers and agents. Sherman Alexie's first book, The Business of Fancydancing, was published in 1992 by an independent press, and Alexie was 26 years old at the time.
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