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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

The Sunlight Dialogues

John Gardner

Paperback | Pages: 720 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 718 Users | 60 Reviews

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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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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

Awesome in every sense of the word; Gardner uses a diverse arsenal of writing styles to explore the lives of a sprawling cast, reveling in the minutia of American life in the 1960's to answer those big, timeless questions that literature was built to address. Full of a dozen conflicts that could each fuel their own novels, the police-mysteries, family-dramas, and philosophical battles that draw you from one chapter to the next don't end tidily with easy answers, but the sum of there conclusions

This is a novel that demands to be reread, and with care. There is so much going on that it becomes hard to keep it all straight sometimes. Nevertheless, the book is a great epic that centers on western New York.

The stars are from memory - it has been so long. Enough to say that from that moment on i bought everything of his in hardback til he died. His generosity, insight and brilliance were the counterpoint i was hungry for when my college teachers were drooling over Barthe. Not to put Barthe down, but I wanted confirmation that brilliance did not require disdain in order to shine.

I'm a fan of John Gardner, but reading him does feel to me like listening to a manic depressive: sometimes he rises to heights of brilliance unimaginable, but he often hits lows, too, of boring passages, flat and irrelevant characters and plodding prose. In Grendel, those lows are forgivable as the novel hooks you with its premise and voice and doesn't let go. In Sunlight, however, I feel Gardner abused his audience. Too many characters and too many plots that start and come to no end. After

The Sunlight Dialogues started my love affair with John Gardner's work followed by October Light which was not as incredible, but lead me to buy everything he wrote. Those who knew his work became saddened by his loss at such an early age. This is the original Ballentine edition for which Paul Bacon did the cover art. Jessica, it's for sale here for $1.10, plus shipping. http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Sunlight-Dial...The SBN number was not on any of the listed editions, nor could I locate it on the

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