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In this coming-of-age thriller, a twelve-year-old boys spark of courage to question the harmonious wooded commune he calls home may burn down more than. He has published two previous books, Demolition Night and The Prince, and his journalism and essays have appeared in a wide variety of outlets, including the New York Times, the Nation, the Guardian, and the New Yorker. Ross Barkan is the author of three books, including The Night Burns Bright. Ross Barkan is a novelist and journalist from New York City. Three writers read from their new novels which explore, in various and arresting forms, precarity and disorienting change in 21st century New York. When he takes the call, he learns that his father has died, and he returns to his family home. In Chapters 1-6, Joe Bonham, the novel’s protagonist, hears a phone ringing while working in a bakery in Los Angeles. Johnny Got His Gun is divided into two books and twenty chapters. 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