The house gun - Nadine Gordimer sci-fi Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse

Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has had more than her share of experience with the supernatural—but now it’s really hitting close to home

even the threat of prison

It is the story of Lady Jane Grey–“the Nine Days’ Queen”–a fifteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center of the religious and civil unrest that nearly toppled the fabled House of Tudor during the sixteenth century

Before long

Faith's fragile sense of her identity is threatened

The house gun - Nadine Gordimer sci-fi Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie StackhouseHow else can you defend yourself against losing your hi fi equipment, your tv set and computer, your watch and rings a house gun, like a house cat; that is a fact of ordinary life in many cities of the world as we come to the end of the twentieth century, especially in south africa at this time the successful, respected executive director of an insurance company, harold, and his doctor wife, claudia, for whom violence could never be a means of solving