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April 27, 2010
The Nervous Breakdown reviews Singer’s Gun
It is dangerous to summarize an Emily St. John Mandel novel. Spoilers would abound in any description, but also a synopsis of Mandel’s thriller/mystery plots would risk trivializing or reducing this immensely talented writer’s work. I’ll limit myself, therefore, to saying that The Singer’s Gun, Mandel’s sophomore novel, is about a man named Anton who grew up with parents who sold stolen goods. Anton himself has worked with his beautiful and cold cousin selling fake passports, but has hankered after the “straight” life and tried to attain it. Of course he finds—as all characters find in fiction, and indeed most people find in life—that it is entirely difficult to outrun your past, and if you are serious about doing so you will probably need to make some pretty unpalatable sacrifices along the road to freedom.
What might be more pertinent, however, would be to say that The Singer’s Gun is about that road: a varied and complex exploration of the journey to the ideal of Freedom, entering the consciousness Read Entire Article
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