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Bloodbath Nation
'One of the most anticipated books of 2023.' TIME magazine
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See moreA stunning examination - through words and images -of the epidemic of mass shootings in America today.
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Bloodbath Nation is about the epidemic that is tearing apart the fabric of American society. An epidemic caused—not by Covid—but by guns.
Among its victims are men, women, teenagers, children, and even babies. The massacres have taken place in churches, schools, movie theatres, and at rock concerts. Auster establishes how America's love affair with guns goes all the way back to the arrival of the first British settlers—guns in hand—who used these guns to eradicate the Native Americans who occupied the country. This history of carnage continues to this day.
Guns have become one of the issues dividing America today, but Auster doesn't take sides. The book is a plea for both sides to find a way of avoiding more death and grief. Accompanying Auster's text is a series of photographs of the locations of these mass killings. There are no bodies—only the empty spaces which stand as mute memorials to the lives that have been lost.
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ISBN: 9780571377565
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 12 January 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 164.0mm
Height: 257.0mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 160
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Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal, SunsetPark, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Bookof Illusions, and The Music of Chance among otther works.In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literatureand inducted into the American Academy of Artsand Letters.
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