My Brother's Gun : A Novel of Disposable Lives, Immediate Fame and a Big Black Automatic - Softcover

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

When the teenage narrator's brother kills an abusive security guard and goes on the lam with a glamorous young woman, they and their families become pop-culture heroes, living out roles that are as twisted as the media's account of the original crime. Loriga describes the horror, that "oozes into your family and becomes part of it, and that's what changes everything...I'm not saying I approve, don't get me wrong, I'm just saying there's two sides to every gun. There's a person at each end." The process of victimization, from an impulsive criminal act to mass public gorging on televised swill, is depicted skillfully and nondidactically. Loriga's economical, vaguely Hemingwayesque style is well suited to the story. A popular novelist in Spain, where this work was a best seller, Loriga is not well known here, but this book?and the film that is in the works?could be his big break internationally. Recommended for public and academic libraries.?Jim Dwyer, California State Univ. Lib., Chico
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