Abstract
ALA Notable Book; Mississippi Arts and Letters Fiction Award. Lewis Nordan's remarkable third novel, The Sharpshooter Blues, is in part a meditation on America's love affair with blue-steel barrels and soft-tip bullets, and in part a look at the violence and loss that ensue when the guns come out to play one day in a small town. Just as his award-winning Wolf Whistle illuminated the complexity of racism, Nordan's new novel shines the brilliant flash of gunfire on love-between fathers and sons, between husbands and wives, between gay lovers, and between friends.