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The Sunlight Dialogues

John Gardner

Paperback | Pages: 720 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 718 Users | 60 Reviews

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Title	:	The Sunlight Dialogues
Author	:	John Gardner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 720 pages
Published	:	April 4th 2017 by New Directions Publishing Corporation (first published 1972)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Classics. American

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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.

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Original Title:	The Sunlight Dialogues
ISBN:	0811216705 (ISBN13: 9780811216708)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.94 From 718 Users | 60 Reviews

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Totally guessing at the date; I read it so long ago. One of the most enjoyable fiction books I've ever read. It is intriguing, complex, philosophical and humorous.Want to read it again.

Ugh! So glad to be through this. Finally. I've read several books by Gardner that I've really enjoyed, so I had pretty high expectations for this.Reading this was like 700 pages of a William Faulkner whose passion is philosophy, but he's insecure so he's got to demonstrate his IQ throughout the novel. 700 pages of this tedious, dense, convoluted, multi-generational mess. Is Gardner brilliant? Yes. Does this novel demonstrate an ability to engage an audience? Definitely not. (You know, the first

Death has not been kind to John Gardner. My high-school English teacher assigned us this book, because I'm sure Gardner was seen at the time as an important American writer. But Gardner's motorcycle ran off the road, literally, and somehow his ascension to the American literary canon veered off track as well.I loved this book as a high-school student. Here's what I wrote about it in my diary in 1975: "The Sunlight Dialogues is turning out to be a very good book. An extremely good book. To think

One of my favorite books of all time, and on a third reading, it's a different, fresh and still relevant novel all these years after its writing. Good and Evil? Not so fast... Love and for the first time truly appreciate -- Clumly's speech at the finish.

One of my favorite books of all time, and on a third reading, it's a different, fresh and still relevant novel all these years after its writing. Good and Evil? Not so fast... Love and for the first time truly appreciate -- Clumly's speech at the finish.

I keep coming back to this book. It's a classic that is always worth reading again. A strange visitor called The Sunlight Man with a mysterious past and some serious behavioral issues drops into a suburban community in upstate New York and begins to wreak havoc. His invasive and anarchic presence there comes to the attention of Clumly, the chief of police. Thus begins a series of confrontations between the two, which eventually evolve into clandestine meetings between them, and the "dialogues"

I bought my copy of this novel over 27 years ago in the US - a First Edition and pricey then! I only got round to reading it this year to find that it had been badly made up such that a section was missing and a gather of around 50 pages was repeated. It got pretty confusing! Anyway, even had it been correct, this would have been a strange text. The first third is visionary, luminary, inventive and full of elegant prose. But then Gardner extends himself - principally by introducing two new