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The book is in NEW & UNREAD condition, no flaws or defects - Hardcover in Dust Jacket as issued. FIRST EDITION/3rd PRINTING with a complete number line beginning in 1. Son of a Gun is a raw, compelling read that stays with you beyond the last page.'Гў 'GQ' Goodreads 3.57. But it's his further probingГў 'into the culture of guns, violence, and manhood that informed their lives in his hometown, Tombstone, Ariz.Гў 'that transforms the book, elevating the stakes from personal pain to larger, important questions of what ails our society.'Гў 'The Boston Globe 'A visceral, compelling portrait of mother and the violent culture that claimed her.'Гў 'Entertainment Weekly 'Impossible to put down. Germain had stopped at examining his mother's psycho-social risk factors and how her murder affected him, this would still be a fine, moving memoir. And like the author, you will mourn her forever.'Гў 'NPR 'If St. By the end of the book, you know his mother, even though you never met her. Germain makes you feel the heat, taste the dust, see those shimmering streets. Germain has created a work of austere, luminous beauty. If the brilliance of Son of a Gun lies in its restraint, its importance lies in the generosity of the author's insights.'Гў 'Alexandra Fuller, The New York Times Book Review ' gritty, enthralling new memoir. amplified from a tale of personal loss and grief into a parable for our time and our nation.

in the hands of a lesser writer, the book's main point. All three are about boys becoming men in a broken world. Moehringer's Tender Bar and Nick Flynn's Another Bull_ Night in Suck City. calls to mind two others of the past decade: J. A LOS ANGELES TIMES SUMMER READING PICK ' spectacular memoir. All the while he tries to be the type of man she would have wanted him to be. He decides to confront people from his past and delve into the police records in an attempt to make sense of his mother's life and death.

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What made his mother, a onetime army paratrooper, the type of woman who would stand up to any man except the men she was in love with? What led her to move from place to place, man to man, job to job, until finally she found herself in a desperate and deteriorating situation, living on an isolated patch of desert with an unstable ex-cop? Justin's journey takes him back to the ghost town of Wyatt Earp, to the trailers he and Debbie shared, to the string of stepfathers who were a constant, sometimes threatening presence in his life, to a harsh world on the margins full of men and women all struggling to define what family means. Ultimately, he is pulled back to the desert landscape of his childhood on a search to make sense of the unfathomable. Yet years later he's still sleeping with a loaded rifle under his bed. Distancing himself from the legendary town of his childhood, Justin makes another life a world away in San Francisco and achieves all the surface successes that would have filled his mother with pride.

Germain, the tragedy marks the line that separates his world into before and after. But for her twenty-year-old son, Justin St.

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'A real-life old West murder mystery,' the local TV announcers intone, while barroom gossips snicker cruelly. Germain's death, apparently at the hands of her fifth husband, is a passing curiosity. Barnes & Noble Award Winner 'Discover Great New Writers' 'In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Includes conversation between Alexandra Fuller and Justin St. Front-cover phtoto courtesy of the author.