Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives, Hardcover
Descriere
WINNER OF THE 2017 J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZEOn an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. It could have been any day, but he chose November 23, 2013. Black, white, and Latino, aged nine to nineteen, they fell at sleepovers, on street corners, in stairwells, and on their own doorsteps. From the rural Midwest to the barrios of Texas, the narrative crisscrosses the country over a period of twenty-four hours to reveal the full human stories behind the gun-violence statistics and the brief mentions in local papers of lives lost. This powerful and moving work puts a human face-a child's face-on the ""collateral damage"" of gun deaths across the country. This is not a book about gun control, but about what happens in a country where it does not exist. What emerges in these pages is a searing and urgent portrait of youth, family, and firearms in America today.
Despre autor
Gary Andrew Younge este un jurnalist, autor, prezentator și academic britanic. A fost editor-șef adjunct al ziarului The Guardian, pe care l-a alăturat în 1993. În noiembrie 2019, s-a anunțat că Younge a fost numit profesor de sociologie la Universitatea din Manchester și că își va părăsi postul de la The Guardian, unde a fost columnist timp de două decenii, deși a continuat să scrie pentru ziar.
