Gun Love
by Jennifer Clement
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Pub Date 12 Apr 2018 | Archive Date 12 May 2018
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Description
**Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2018**
‘My mother called anyone or anything that seemed alone, or ended up in the wrong place, a stray. There were stray people, stray dogs, stray bullets, and stray butterflies.’
Fourteen-year-old Pearl France lives in the front seat of a broken down car and her mother Margot lives in the back. Together they survive on a diet of powdered milk and bug spray, love songs and stolen cigarettes.
Life on the edge of a Florida trailer park is strange enough, but when Pastor Rex’s ‘Guns for God’ programme brings Eli Redmond to town Pearl’s world is upended. Eli pays regular visits to Margot in the back seat, forcing Pearl to find a world beyond the car. Margot is given a gift by Eli, a gun of her own, just like he’s given her flowers. It sits under the driver’s seat, a dark presence…
Gun Love is a hypnotic story of family, community and violence. Told from the perspective of a sharp-eyed teenager, it exposes America’s love affair with firearms and its painful consequences.
Advance Praise
It’s been a long time since I’ve been so mesmerized with a novel’s each next sentence. Jennifer Clement is one of our most inventive novelists. There’s no telling what she’ll see. Whatever it is, it’s something right in front of us, but—here is the magic trick—something we have never before seen. Gun Love is an amazement: fierce, inventive, tender
Rick Bass, author of For A Little While
Clement is a brilliant stylist... her metaphors
and similes are superb; and together they create a haunting atmosphere ...
Always evocative, it is an unforgettable knockout not to be missed
Starred review, Booklist
Pearl’s story takes place in a world both strange and
familiar, in the fairy tale of her mother’s imagination and in an America
pockmarked by gun violence and poverty ... Clement’s quiet tragedy is moving,
unsettling, and filled with characters who will haunt you long after the story
ends
Kirkus Review
Clement’s affecting and memorable novel is also an
incisive social commentary that will give readers much to ponder
Publishers Weekly
Clement turns her hypnotic pen to the story of America’s love affair
with guns
Huffington Post
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781781090640 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 240 |
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