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Bloodbath nation / Paul Auster ; photographs by Spencer Ostrander.

Auster, Paul, 1947- (author.). Ostrander, Spencer, (photographer.).

Summary:
"Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law enforcement killings caused by guns, and the average comes out to more than one hundred Americans killed by bullets every day. On that same average day, another two hundred-plus are wounded by guns, which translates into eighty thousand a year. Eighty thousand wounded and forty thousand dead, or one hundred and twenty thousand ambulance calls and emergency room cases for every twelve-month tick of the clock, but the toll of gun violence goes far beyond the pierced and bloodied bodies of the victims themselves, spilling out into the devastations visited upon their immediate families, their extended families, their friends, their fellow workers, the people of their neighborhoods, their schools, their churches, their softball teams, and communities at large-the vast brigade of lives touched by the presence of a single person who lives or has lived among them-meaning that the number of Americans directly or indirectly marked by gun violence every year must be tallied in the millions"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802160454
  • ISBN: 080216045X
  • Physical Description: 136 pages: illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2023.
Subject: Firearms ownership > United States.
Firearms accidents > United States.
Mortality > United States.
Victims of violent crimes > United States.
Mass shootings > United States.

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  • 16 of 16 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library 363.33 AUSTER (Text) 50686016266798 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 363.33 AUS (Text) 33240005158780 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Cambria County Library 363.33 A934b (Text) 85131001872481 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library 363.33 AUSTER (Text) 35740635925324 Nonfiction Available -
Highland Community Library 363.33 AUS (Text) 35610001004923 HGHM Non-Fiction Available -
Huntingdon County Library NF 363.33 AUS (Text) 30298100606924 Nonfiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library 363.330973 Auster History (Text) 39427103717260 Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction Available -
Martin Library Adults 363.33 AUS Life Times (Text)
Bookplate: Plated 2023: In Honor of Mary G. Stephenson By Martin Library Honors Committee 2023
33454005923107 2nd Floor Available -
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity 363.33 AUS 2023 (Text) 31001101877505 Adult Non Fiction Available -
North Pocono Public Library 363.33 AUSTER (Text) 50691010961337 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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