By Sara Bucher Of course a play called Gun Love would follow a circular Chekhovian logic. As the lights come up: the sound of a gun being cocked. Lights off: gunshot. And in between: lots and lots of guns. “Memory,” Pearl, the narrator, informs the audience near the beginning, “is the only substitute for love.” …
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If you have a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it needs to go off at some point. Chekhov’s dramatic principle about guns is followed to the letter in Jennifer Clement’s superb new novel.
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