Summary
Paul Auster: A Nation Bathed in Blood
It is a work in which Paul Auster, combining two of his own literary expressions, memoir prose and essay text, presents the genesis of the attitude of Americans towards firearms and considers the various implications of that attitude, with the desire to arrive at some kind of logical answer to the question of why the United States of America is the country with the highest number of mass murders. Using relevant literature as well as his own experience with firearms, Auster attempts to establish a more or less logical sociocultural framework for crimes that defy all reason. The tragic events covered in the book are accompanied by Spencer Ostrander's black and white photographs, as a visual reminder of the desolation of space and soul that places of mass murder indelibly are.
"An attempt by a master of storytelling to get to the heart of America's obsession with firearms."
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