The Shooting

by James Boice

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939419743
Publisher:	The Unnamed Press
Publication date:	09/13/2016
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

"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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