{"product_id":"everyone-here-has-a-gun-stories","title":"Everyone Here Has a Gun: Stories","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eEveryone Here Has a Gun: Stories\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLucas Southworth\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781625340535\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Massachusetts Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2013\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e160\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn a tightrope act of darkness and humor, fantasy and reality, the twelve stories in this award-winning collection describe characters searching for comfort and stability in a world that is ultimately too vast, violent, and incomprehensible. As they revert to what seems most simple and familiar--public transportation, television, museums, fairy tales--they discover only murder, displacement, fragmentation, and obsession. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"The Running Legs and Other Stories,\" Mary Beth attempts to recall a traumatic experience from her childhood, filtering it through children's stories told by her \"wicked\" stepmother. In \"Lincoln's Face, A Resurrection,\" an African American make-up artist struggles with concepts of history as she transforms a former lover into Abraham Lincoln. The young narrator in \"Under the World\" grieves for his parents by losing himself in a worldwide subway system. And in the title story, the speaker describes a small room where everyone armed with a single gun waits with dread and anticipation for the inevitable first shot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnton Chekhov famously noted that if a story introduces a gun in the first act, that gun must go off by the third. Yet while weapons are often present in Southworth's stories, they are rarely fired, existing instead as a constant reminder of the power people can have over each other and the violent potential of narrative itself.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Everyone Here Has a Gun: Stories | Lucas Southworth | Hardcover | 9781625340535 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1775378","offer_id":49724929966232,"sku":"1775378","price":174.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/A13YKeD4RBL.jpg?v=1787321162","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/everyone-here-has-a-gun-stories","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}