· By Alexandra Fuller. Aug. 9, Justin St. Germain’s spectacular memoir, “Son of a Gun,” calls to mind two others of the past decade: J. R. Moehringer’s “Tender Bar” and Nick Flynn Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. · A taut, grim memoir weighing Western mythology against a family tragedy. Central to this debut from St. Germain (Creative Writing/Univ. of New Mexico) is a horrific yet all-too-common act of domestic violence. While he was a struggling undergraduate, his mother was murdered by her fifth husband, Ray, who killed himself after a few months on the run. · Free download or read online Son of a Gun: A Memoir pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in January 1st , and was written by Justin St. Germain. The book was published in multiple languages including, consists of pages and is available in ebook format/5.
"From an incident of heartbreaking violence, Justin St. Germain has created a clear-eyed and deeply moving meditation on family, geography, and memory, and how difficult it is to find our place in any of them. Son of a Gun is an extraordinary memoir." (Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds). Justin St Germain was 20 then. This book tells his story - and his mother's. Son of a Gun recounts a happy enough childhood in Tombstone, Arizona, a dusty, moribund place famous for the gunfight. Memoirs about dead relatives are often an excuse to mourn publicly, but this is not the case for St. Germain. Son of a Gun is a slow-burner, full of remarkably restrained prose, delivered in a seemingly impermeable shell that shows little sign of cracking. Son of a Gun. by Justin St. Germain.
Son of a Gun: A Memoir - Justin St. Germain (Used, Signed) In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath. Tombstone, Arizona, September A MEMOIR. by Justin St. Germain ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 13, A taut, grim memoir weighing Western mythology against a family tragedy. Central to this debut from St. Germain (Creative Writing/Univ. of New Mexico) is a horrific yet all-too-common act of domestic violence. While he was a struggling undergraduate, his mother was murdered by her fifth husband, Ray, who killed himself after a few months on the run. “From an incident of heartbreaking violence, Justin St. Germain has created a clear-eyed and deeply moving meditation on family, geography, and memory, and how difficult it is to find our place in any of them. Son of a Gun is an extraordinary memoir.”—Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds.
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