[Signed] [First Edition] Draw Your Weapons. Sentilles, Sarah [Used - Near Fine] [Hardcover]

DETAILS: near fine dust-jacket, slightest wear at top of spine, cover price $28.00, attractive copy, fine condition white hardcover. nicely INSCRIBED across entire title page in gold marker on black background, over 7-lines (big letters), and SIGNED Sarah Sentilles. SENTILLES, SARAH. Draw your weapons. New York: Random House, 2017, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xiv, 304pp., . Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defense of life lived by peace and principle. It is a literary collage with an urgent hope at its core: that art might offer tools for remaking the world. In Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories of Howard, a conscientious objector during World War II, and Miles, a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib, and in the process she challenges conventional thinking about how war is waged, witnessed, and resisted. The pacifist and the soldier both create art in response to war: Howard builds a violin; Miles paints portraits of detainees. With echoes of Susan Sontag and Maggie Nelson, Sentilles investigates images of violence from the era of slavery to the drone age. In doing so, she wrestles with some of our most profound questions: What does it take to inspire compassion? What impact can one person have? How should we respond to violence when it feels like it can't be stopped? - CONTENTS: The photograph in the newspaper -- Another photograph in the newspaper -- Doorway to the deep -- Looking at the same picture -- Manzanar -- Inta means you -- Souvenir -- In your head -- Written in the stars -- Call of duty -- Smallest possible weapon -- Paint the target -- War tourism -- Watcher of humanity -- Reenactments -- Let there be -- Draw your weapons. ISBN 9780399590344