Boy With Loaded Gun: A Memoir - Hardcover

Nordan, Lewis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565121996 ISBN 13: 9781565121997

Verlag: Algonquin Books, 2000

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The critically acclaimed author of The Sharpshooter Blues and Lightning Song presents an entertaining memoir about growing up in the Mississippi Delta town of Itta Bena, describing life in a sleepy Southern town, his education, military career, family life, and literary career. 20,000 first printing.

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Lewis Nordan is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Nothing is sacred, off-limits, for Lewis Nordan...*

"As a prose stylist, Nordan is capable of a range of effects from the broadest slapstick comedy to the subtlest evocations of the lush, dangerous beauty of delta and swamp." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"What he alone brings to the page is the courage to use nothing less than black powder prose itself to blast some sense into us no matter where we've come to ground." --The Miami Herald

"In Nordan's skillful hands facts become slippery, magical, humorous, and black." --The Houston Post

"Flights of fancy keep bumping into the hard facts of life." --Newsweek

"He conjures up a Southern-fried childhood that's as dark, hilarious and affecting as any you're likely to encounter." --The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

"A master of 'the landscapes of the broken heart.'" --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"...The reason nothing is sacred to him is because everything appears holy with him." --*Nashville Banner

"If you call yourself a serious reader but still haven't discovered Lewis Nordan, shame on you." --The Seattle Times

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Lewis Nordan "gets us to laugh at the whole of human existence--the pity, the horror, the vanity, the courage--and leaves us with a more profound sense of it all." --Randall Kenan, The Nation

His own mother referred to him as a "nervous child," an "odd child." He was the class clown--the skinny kid with a cowlick, freckles, jug ears, and an overbite. He could wiggle his ears and fold his eyelids back. He was obsessed with sex, comic books, and beatniks. He tried to fly off his front porch like Superman only to land flat on his face. He was the boy who saved his money, bought a mail-order gun, and shot himself in the foot--over and over again.

How did this boy get to be the most famous son of Itta Bena, Mississippi? The floodgates of confession open in this funny, tragic, and bittersweet memoir about an awkward kid who dreamed of a world beyond his home in the Mississippi Delta.

From losing a father as a child to losing a child as a father, from the rawness of youth to the rage and redemption of adulthood, Lewis Nordan's Boy with Loaded Gun is a powerful elegy about a hopeful boy finding his way in a seemingly hopeless world.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Algonquin Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1565121996
• ISBN 13: 9781565121997
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar