Bloodbath Nation

'One of the most anticipated books of 2023.' TIME magazine

Paul Auster, Spencer Ostrander

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English

Faber & Faber
12 April 2023

Photography & photographs; History of the Americas; 21st century history: from c 2000 -

Blood Nation is about the Epidemic that is tearing apart the fabric of American society. An Epidemic caused - not by Covid - but by Guns.

Among its victims are men, women, teenagers, children, and even babies. The massacres have taken place in churches, schools, movie theatres, and at rock concerts. Auster establishes how America's love affair with guns goes all the way back to the arrival of the first British settlers - guns in hand - who used these guns to eradicate the Native Americans who occupied the country. This history of carnage continues to this day.

Guns have become one of the issues dividing America today, but Auster doesn't take sides. The book is a plea for both sides to find a way of avoiding more death and grief. Accompanying Auster's text is a series of photographs of the locations of these mass killings. There are no bodies - only the empty spaces which stand as mute memorials to the lives that have been lost.

By: Paul Auster, Spencer Ostrander
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 257mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9780571377565
ISBN 10: 0571377564
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 12 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal, SunsetPark, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Bookof Illusions, and The Music of Chance among otther works.In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literatureand inducted into the American Academy of Artsand Letters.