The Sharpshooter Blues by Lewis Nordan

The Sharpshooter Blues by Lewis Nordan

ALA Notable Book; Mississippi Arts and Letters Fiction Award. Lewis Nordan's remarkable third novel, THE SHARPSHOTER BLUES, is in part a meditation on America's love affair with blue-steel barrels and soft-tip bullets, and in part a look at the violence and loss that ensue when the guns come out to play one day in a small town. Just as his award-winning WOF WHISTLE illuminated the complexity of racism, Nordan's new novel shines the brilliant flash of gunfire on love--between fathers and sons, between husbands and wives, between gay lovers, and between friends. At its heart is Hydro Raney, a boy who's never grown up, a boy who wouldn't hurt a soul. In THE SHARPSHOTER BLUES, Nordan once again makes us laugh; then our helpless laughter turns first into weeping and then into wonder. A comedy at least half as divine--and dark--as Dante's own . . . a flat-out tour de force.--Lee K. Abbott, Miami Herald; This is not just a good book, this is a marvelous book.-The Village Voice.

Lewis Nordan was a long-time creative writing professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of seven novels and a memoir. Three Notable Book citations from the American Library Association, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for literature, the Mississippi Writers Award for fiction, and the Southern Book Critics Award for fiction are among his accolades. In 2012, he passed away.

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ISBN 13	9781565120839
ISBN 10	1565120833
Title	The Sharpshooter Blues
Author	Lewis Nordan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Workman Publishing
Year published	1995-01-10
Number of pages	291
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