An edition of The house gun (1998)

House Gun

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An edition of The house gun (1998)

House Gun

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A house gun, like a house cat: a fact of ordinary life, today. How else can you defend yourself against losing your hi-fi equipment, your TV set and computer? The respected Executive Director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife, Claudia, are faced with something that could never happen to them: their son, Duncan, has committed murder.

What kind of loyalty do a mother and father owe a son who has committed the unimaginable horror? How could he have ignored the sanctity of human life? What have they done to influence his character; how have they failed him?

Nadine Gordimer's new novel is a passionate narrative of the complex manifestations of that final test of human relations we call love - between lovers of all kinds, and parents and children. It moves with the restless pace of living itself; if it is a parable of present violence, it is also an affirmation of the will to reconciliation that starts where it must, between individual men and women.

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Language
English
Pages
304

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Un arma en casa
Un arma en casa
2006, Ediciones B
in Spanish - 1a ed.
Cover of: House Gun
House Gun
July 30, 2004, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Turtleback in English
Cover of: The house gun
The house gun
1998, Compass Press
in English
Cover of: The house gun
The house gun
1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The house gun
The house gun
1998, Bloomsbury
in English - 1st ed.

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First Sentence

"They are watching it on the screen with their after-dinner coffee cups beside them."

The Physical Object

Format
Turtleback
Number of pages
304
Dimensions
7.8 x 5 x 1 inches
Weight
9.6 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL10943594M
ISBN 10
0606297944
ISBN 13
9780606297943
Goodreads
2187808

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April 24, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs.
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October 18, 2009 Edited by WorkBot add edition to work page
April 30, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from amazon.com record