Title: House Gun Author: Gordimer, Nadine ISBN: 0374173079 Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Price: $24.00 Publication Date: 01/98 Format: Hardcover Category: New Hc-Fiction |
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Nadine Gordimer will be our guest for a talk and booksigning at the Boston Public Library on Tuesday, January 20, at 6:00. For more information, see our events calendar. A house gun, like a house cat: a fact of ordinary life, today. How else can you defend yourself against losing your hi-fi equipment, your TV set and computer? The respected Executive Director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with something that could never happen to them: their son, Duncan, has committed murder. What kind of loyalty do a mother and father owe a son who has committed the unimaginable horror? How could he have ignored the sanctity of human life? What have they done to influence his character; how have they failed him? Nadine Gordimer's new novel is a passionate narrative of the complex manifestations of that final test of human relations we call love -- between lovers of all kinds, and parents and children. It moves with the restless pace of living itself; if it is a parable of present violence, it is also an affirmation of the will to reconciliation that starts where it must, between individual men and women. About the Author |
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