Gun Love

Name: Gun Love
ISBN: 9781784706760

by Jennifer Clement

3/5

(37 votes)

**Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2018** 'Haunting.

poetic.

Full of sorrow and aching sweetness' Washington Post Gun Love is a hypnotic story of family, community and violence.

Told from the perspective of a sharp-eyed teenager, it exposes America's love affair with firearms and its painful consequences.

'My mother called anyone or anything that seemed alone, or ended up in the wrong place, a stray.

There were stray people, stray dogs, stray bullets, and stray butterflies.

' Fourteen-year-old Pearl France lives in the front seat of a broken down car and her mother Margot lives in the back.

Together they survive on a diet of powdered milk and bug spray, love songs and stolen cigarettes.

Life on the edge of a Florida trailer park is strange enough, but when Pastor Rex's 'Guns for God' programme brings Eli Redmond to town Pearl's world is upended.

Eli pays regular visits to Margot in the back seat, forcing Pearl to find a world beyond the car.

Margot is given a gift by Eli, a gun of her own, just like he's given her flowers.

It sits under the driver's seat, a dark presence.

'One of those rare books that the reader might wish to be a few dozen pages longer, to spend more time in this fully realised world ' Observer *Soon to be a film adaptation directed by Julie Taymor*.

First published: 2019
Publishers: Penguin Random House
Language: English

About Jennifer Clement

Jennifer Clement is the President of PEN International and the first woman to be elected since the organization was founded in 1921. Clement grew up in Mexico City, Mexico. She studied English Literature and Anthropology at New York University and also studied French Literature in Paris, France. She has an MFA from the University of Southern Maine.From 2009 to 2012, Clement was president of PEN Mexico and her work focused on the disappearance and killing of journalists. Human rights issues have motivated her writing. In 2014 she was awarded the Sara Curry Humanitarian Award for her novel Prayers for the Stolen that involved over ten years of research on the stealing of young girls in Mexico.Clement is the author four novels Gun Love, Prayers for the Stolen, A True Story Based on Lies and The Poison That Fascinates. She also wrote the acclaimed memoir Widow Basquiat (on the painter Jean Michel Basquiat and New York City in the early 1980s). Clement is also the author of several books of poetry: The Next Stranger (with an introduction by W.S. Merwin); Newton’s Sailor; Lady of the Broom and Jennifer Clement: New and Selected Poems. Her prize-winning story, “A Salamander-Child” is published as an art book with work by the Mexican painter Gustavo Monroy. Clement’s books have been translated into 24 languages.Prayers for the Stolen was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Book, First Selection for National Reading Group Month’s Great Group Reads and appeared internationally on many “Best Books of the Year” lists, including that of The Irish Times. The novel was awarded France’s Grand Prix des Lectrices Lyceenes de ELLE, The Sara Curry Humanitarian Award and was finalist for 2015′s PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.Other honours include the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Fellowship for Literature in 2012, the UK’s Canongate Prize, a Santa Maddalena Fellowship, the MacDowell Colony’s Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellowship and, due to her humanitarian work, Clement was awarded a City of Asylum Residency in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Her novel A True Story Based on Lies was an Orange Prize finalist and Prayers for the Stolen was a Prix Femina finalist in France. She is a member of Mexico’s prestigious “Sistema Nacional de Creadores.”Several of Clement’s works have been adapted for the stage. Her novel on the mistreatment of servants in Mexico, A True Story Based on Lies, was staged in France by the Traits de Marque Company and in Mexico by The National Theatre of Mexico and adapted by Ximena Escalante. Ados Teatro in Spain is currently adapting Prayers for the Stolen for the stage and the BBC is creating a 5-episode radio play of Prayers for the Stolen with an adaptation by Jeff Young.Twenty-two years ago, Jennifer Clement and her sister, Barbara Sibley, founded The San Miguel Poetry Week in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico....

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