Bloodbath Nation Auster PaulPevná vazba

An intimate and powerful rumination on American gun
violence by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and "genuine
American original" (The Boston Globe), in an unforgettable collaboration
with photographer Spencer Ostrander
Like most American boys of his generation, Paul Auster grew
up playing with toy six-shooters and mimicking the gun-slinging cowboys in
B-Westerns. A crack marksman by the age of ten, he also lived through the
traumatic aftermath of the murder of his grandfather by his grandmother when
his father was a child and knows, through firsthand experience, how families can
be wrecked by a single act of gun violence.
In this short, searing book, Auster traces centuries of
America's use and abuse of guns, from the violent displacement of the native
population, to the forced enslavement of millions, to the bitter