商品簡介
A haunting, illustrated account of gun violence throughout American history that shows us how little things have changed
Shocked by the epidemic of gun violence in the United States, acclaimed writer Peter Manseau found himself absorbed by the "melancholy accidents" that once appeared im American newspapers: daily accounts of accidental gun deaths that seemed as unfortunate as they were unavoidable. In Melancholy Accidents, Manseau collects, annotates, and introduces many of these articles, painting a devastating portrait of our nation's long, bloody relationship with firearms. Illustrated with period etchings and sketches, Melancholy Accidents is a wholly unique look at the dark side of American history.
作者簡介
PETER MANSEAU is a fellow at the Smithsonian. He is the author of Rag and Bone, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, Vows, and One Nation, Under Gods. He is the winner of the National Jewish Book Award, the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Jewish Literature, the Ribalow Prize for Fiction, and a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and he has also been shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and the Prix Medicis etranger, awarded to the best foreign novel published in France. He is a founding editor of Killing the Buddha, and he lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
