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Constructed around themes of solitude and connection, creation and destruction, love and loss, these sixteen stories unfold in a world haunted by individual and collective violence, systemic injustice, pandemic, and environmental duress: not with genre sensibilities of the dystopic or apocalyptic, but with compassion and wisdom that renders a staid, meditative examination of our contemporary challenges. The Gunman and the Carnival does not aspire to be a panorama or to portray the city (or the nation) in its extraordinary complexity. Rather it shines a roving light into the minds and hearts of an idiosyncratic handful of characters living in our difficult times and invites each one to sing. Some of the stories are realist, some oblique and fragmented, others metafictional or surreal, and the urban \/ suburban landscapes are accented by the occasional appearance of wildlife and the presence (and voices) of trees. 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Against a backdrop of America's and Germany's brutal histories, her lyrical yet frightening then haunted and intimate language crawls into the psyche of her characters. Gammon is an author whose books you can trust to shock and seduce. Brava for a new book--for our times. \u003cbr\u003e- Margo Berdeshevsky, author of\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eIt Is Still Beautiful to Hear the Heart Beat, Beautiful Soon Enough\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eKneel Said the Night.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJutta Carroll and her lover Lukas Grimm are found shot to death in their home. Was it a murder suicide? 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Loosely based on the life and death of the activist and founder of the German Green Party, Petra Kelly, and her partner Gerd Bastien, The Martyrs, The Lovers calls attention to the perennial challenges that informed the lives and deaths of these activists; to environment, to peace, to justice, and to feminism, which, if anything, are more prevalent than ever today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53648804479249,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53648805134609,"sku":"NGR9781936097746","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781936097746.jpg?v=1781130787"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-catherine-gammon.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}