The Shooting
by
James Boice
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1939419743
ISBN-13
9781939419743
Publisher
Unnamed Press
Imprint
Unnamed Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 29th, 2016
Print length
300 Pages
Weight
425 grams
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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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.
Clayton Kabede is a regular New York City kid, the son of immigrant parents living in the basement unit of an upscale apartment building where his father works as the superintendent. Lee Fisher lives in the penthouse of that same building — wealthy, paranoid, and armed. One night while sleepwalking, Clayton knocks on Fisher’s door. A gun explodes senselessly. The Shooting is the story of the journey to this moment.
Around Clayton and Lee, the past and future lives of a sprawling cast of characters wraps and intersects: the nation’s leading gun control advocate, whose own child was killed in a school shooting; the affluent bankers'' kids Clayton clashes with on the street; the doctor who once declined to help the struggling Kabede family; the Blackwater-style mercenary who gets caught up in the protests over Clayton’s murder; Lee’s college roommates and his cellmates; the little sister of Clayton’s best friend; and responding police officers.
No city is better suited to be the setting for James Boice’s tour de force about gun violence. The encounter between Kabede and Fisher, like gun violence itself, is one that Boice imprints on our national identity, bloodied by its own most sacred myths.
Around Clayton and Lee, the past and future lives of a sprawling cast of characters wraps and intersects: the nation’s leading gun control advocate, whose own child was killed in a school shooting; the affluent bankers'' kids Clayton clashes with on the street; the doctor who once declined to help the struggling Kabede family; the Blackwater-style mercenary who gets caught up in the protests over Clayton’s murder; Lee’s college roommates and his cellmates; the little sister of Clayton’s best friend; and responding police officers.
No city is better suited to be the setting for James Boice’s tour de force about gun violence. The encounter between Kabede and Fisher, like gun violence itself, is one that Boice imprints on our national identity, bloodied by its own most sacred myths.
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