Author(s): Nadine Gordimer

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Literary Fiction

What kind of loyalty do a mother and father owe a son who has committed the unimaginable? How has he come to disregard the sanctity of human life? What have they done to influence his character? Where have they failed him? Duncan's guilt is self-confessed, but not explained. Everything in their world has changed. The House Gun is a passionate narrative of that final test of human relations we call love - between lovers of all kinds and parents and their offspring. It moves with the restless pace of living itself, from the intimate to the general condition; if it is a parable of present violence, it is also an affirmation of the will to human reconciliation that starts where it must, between individual men and women.

1998. A trade paperback copy in very good condition.