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The Sunlight Dialogues

John Gardner

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The Sunlight Dialogues

Synopsis

Madman. Prophet. Magician. Hippie. Murderer. Who is the Sunlight Man? In The Sunlight Dialogues, John Gardner's vision of America in the turbulent 1960s embraces an unconventional cast of conventional citizens in the small rural town of Batavia, New York. Sheriff Fred Clumly is trying desperately to unravel mysteries surrounding a disorderly, nameless drifter called The Sunlight Man, who has been jailed for painting the word LOVE across two lanes of traffic, and who is later suspected of murder. The men battle over morality, freedom and their opposing notions of justice, leading each to find his own state of grace. Their conflict is mirrored in the community of middlebrow politicians and their church-going wives, Native Americans, working-class immigrants, farmers, soldiers, petty thieves, and even centenarian sisters too stubborn to die. Gardner's alchemy is existential: from the most raw, vulnerable, and conflicting characters in the American melting pot, he transmutes common denominators of human isolation and longing. With unnerving suspense, his acute ear for American speech, and permeated by his deep-rooted belief in morality, this expansive, sprawling, and ambitious novel is John Gardner's masterpiece: A superb literary achievement, noted The Boston Globe,

Product Details

ISBN:
9780811216708
Category:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2006-11-14
Publisher:
NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING CORPORATION
Country of origin:
United States
Edition:
New edition
Pages:
736
Dimensions (mm):
202x131x41mm
Weight:
680g

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