Wingshooters

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Product Details
Price
$15.95  $14.83
Publisher
Akashic Books, Ltd.
Publish Date
Pages
250
Dimensions
5.61 X 8.19 X 0.86 inches | 0.57 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781936070718

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About the Author
Nina Revoyr is the author of three previous novels, The Necessary Hunger, Southland, and The Age of Dreaming. Southland was a Book Sense 76 pick, won the Lambda Literary Award, and was a Los Angeles Times "Best Book" of 2003. The Age of Dreaming was a finalist for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Revoyr is currently a visiting professor at Pitzer College and vice president of a large non-profit children's organization. She lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews
Revoyr writes rhapsodically of a young girl's enthrallment to the natural world and charts, with rising intensity, her resilient narrator's painful awakening to human failings and senseless violence. In this shattering northern variation on To Kill A Mockingbird, Revoyr drives to the very heart of tragic ignorance, unreason, and savagery.-- "Booklist, Starred Review"
Hauntingly provocative . . . an excellent choice for book discussion groups as it will force readers to dig deep and look inward.-- "Library Journal"
Gripping and insightful.-- "Kirkus Reviews"
Much can be said and commended about the book's themes of loyalty and love . . . I'll just say that this author is a big talent. Her book is a little thing of beauty. It's a story with American historical significance; it's a novel with emotional heft; it's a satisfying read in the spirit of what Picasso said about another writer, James Joyce: 'The incomprehensible that everyone can understand.'-- "Brooklyn Rail"
Revoyr has written a searing portrait of the all-too-recent past, of a place where change comes slowly and painfully, and of a girl just trying to find her own space in the world.

-- "Wichita Eagle"