The Shooting

James Boice

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Unnamed Press
13 September 2016

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Meet the most hated woman in America: Jenny Sanders (also known as the country's most successful gun control advocate). On her way to New York City, to the site of yet another shooting, she encounters one of her many opponents. Their shocking collision will plunge you directly into the world of James Boice's fourth and most urgent novel. It begins with Lee Fisher, a boy raised as a patriot and native son who cannot escape the influence of his troubled father. The heir to a massive family fortune, Lee struggles to find his place in the world. By the time a stranger walks through the unlocked door of his New York City penthouse, Lee is as terrified by his own isolation as he is by the threat posed by the intruder. The stranger - unarmed teenager Clayton Kabede - carries with him an immigrant story as profound as the American experience itself. Refugees and militia men, Russian physicists and inner city teens, Rikers Island inmates and Second Amendment repealists, beat cops and $1000-per-hour defense attorneys - James Boice delivers an unprecedented portrait of contemporary America through the prism of a single shooting.

By: James Boice
Imprint: Unnamed Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 425g
ISBN: 9781939419743
ISBN 10: 1939419743
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 13 September 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

James Boice is the author of three previous novels, MVP, NoVA, and The Good and the Ghastly, all published by Scribner. His work has appeared in Esquire, McSweeney's, Salt Hill, Fiction Magazine, and Writer's Digest, among other places. In 2006 he was selected as the New Voice in the Esquire 100. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Reviews for The Shooting

In The Shooting, James Boice offers a timely and scathing indictment of our current gun-happy culture, cross-cutting hearts and minds in his incomparable take-no-prisoners style. Another stunner from Boice. --Elizabeth Crane, author of The History of Great Things Finding James Boice has been a revelation for me. His hard-bitten prose flies off the page at you like the cracking of a machine gun... --Tony O'Neill, author of Sick City James Boice's sentences crack like hot electric bullwhips across the backs of America's demons. --Christopher Ransom, author of The Birthing House Boice's prose grabs you and never lets go. --Orlando Sentinel [James Boice] masterfully employs a style all his own. --Boston Magazine There's a jittery brilliance... [James Boice] has considerable stylistic flair. --Kirkus Reviews

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