The Sharpshooter Blues (Front Porch Paperbacks)

About this book

ALA Notable Book; Mississippi Arts and Letters Fiction Award. Lewis Nordans remarkable third novel THE SHARPSHOOTER BLUES is in part a meditation on Americas love affair with blue-steel barrels and soft-tip bullets and in part a look at the violence and loss that ensue when the guns come out to play one day in a small town. Just as his award-winning WOF WHISTLE illuminated the complexity of racism Nordans new novel shines the brilliant flash of gunfire on love--between fathers and sons between husbands and wives between gay lovers and between friends. At its heart is Hydro Raney a boy whos never grown up a boy who wouldnt hurt a soul. In THE SHARPSHOOTER BLUES Nordan once again makes us laugh; then our helpless laughter turns first into weeping and then into wonder. "A comedy at least half as divine--and dark--as Dantes own . . . a flat-out tour de force."--Lee K. Abbott Miami Herald; "This is not just a good book this is a marvelous book."-The Village Voice.