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A Moment in the Sun by Sayles, John , hardcover
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- 9781936365180
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Moment in the Sun
- Publisher
- Mcsweeney's Publishing
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- War & Military, Literary, Historical
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It's 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countries, this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Shot through with a lyrical intensity and stunning detail that recall Doctorow and Deadwood both, A Moment in the Sun takes the whole era in its sights--from the white-racist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina to the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in the Philippines. Beginning with Hod Brackenridge searching for his fortune in the North, and hurtling forward on the voices of a breathtaking range of men and women--Royal Scott, an African American infantryman whose life outside the military has been destroyed; Diosdado Concepc on, a Filipino insurgent fighting against his country's new colonizers; and more than a dozen others, Mark Twain and President McKinley's assassin among them--this is a story as big as its subject: history rediscovered through the lives of the people who made it happen.
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Mcsweeney's Publishing
ISBN-10
1936365189
ISBN-13
9781936365180
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Book Title
Moment in the Sun
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
War & Military, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Fiction
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9in.
Item Height
2.8in.
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6in.
Item Weight
43.5 Oz
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Ps3569.A95m66 2011
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"In his most spectacular work of fiction to date, filmmaker Sayles combines wonder and outrage in a vigorous dramatization of overlooked and downright shameful aspects of turn-of-the-nineteenth-century America.… Crackling with rare historical details, spiked with caustic humor, and fueled by incandescent wrath over racism, sexism, and serial injustice against working people, Sayles' hard-driving yet penetrating and compassionate saga explicates the 'fever dream' of commerce, the crimes of war, and the dream of redemption." —Donna Seaman, Booklist "Though known best as a filmmaker ( Eight Men Out ), Sayles is also an accomplished novelist ( Union Dues ), whose latest will stand among the finest work on his impressive résumé. Weighing in at nearly 1,000 pages, the behemoth recalls E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime , Pynchon's Against the Day , and Dos Passos's USA trilogy, tracking mostly unconnected characters whose collective stories create a vast, kaleidoscopic panorama of the turn of the last century." — Publishers Weekly, "In his most spectacular work of fiction to date, filmmaker Sayles combines wonder and outrage in a vigorous dramatization of overlooked and downright shameful aspects of turn-of-the-nineteenth-century America.… Crackling with rare historical details, spiked with caustic humor, and fueled by incandescent wrath over racism, sexism, and serial injustice against working people, Sayles' hard-driving yet penetrating and compassionate saga explicates the 'fever dream' of commerce, the crimes of war, and the dream of redemption." —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) "Though known best as a filmmaker ( Eight Men Out ), Sayles is also an accomplished novelist ( Union Dues ), whose latest will stand among the finest work on his impressive résumé. Weighing in at nearly 1,000 pages, the behemoth recalls E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime , Pynchon's Against the Day , and Dos Passos's USA trilogy, tracking mostly unconnected characters whose collective stories create a vast, kaleidoscopic panorama of the turn of the last century." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Sayles's cat-squasher of a book... pulls all his characters onto a huge global stage, setting them into motion as America goes to war against Spain and takes its first giant step toward becoming a world power. The narrative is full of historical lessons of the Howard Zinn/Studs Terkel radical-revisionist school, but Sayles is too good a writer to be a propagandist; his stories tell their own lessons and many will be surprises... [ A Moment in the Sun is] a long time in coming, with an ending that's one of the most memorable in recent literature. A superb novel." — Kirkus (starred review), John Sayles may be better known as a filmmaker ( Lone Star , Eight Men Out , and my favorite, Return of the Secaucus 7 ) than as a novelist, but this drama spanning five years, and stretching from Cuba to the Philippines, proves him to be a great fiction writer. The conscience that infuses his earlier work is evident in this novel, and if you're looking for a summer reading challenge with a big payoff, this may be your book. Sayles tells a story of American racism and American imperialism at the turn of the century, through a kaleidoscope of imaginary and real-life characters, including Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst and Mark Twain." —Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago Tribune (Editor's Choice) Sayles is a terrific writer. His breathtaking precision and attention to detail can make E.L. Doctorow's historical novels look puny and slapdash by comparison. His ability to map the intersections of scores of plots and hundreds of fictional and real-life characters is truly stunning." —Adam Langer, San Francisco Chronicle A Moment in the Sun 's moment is now, a strapping 935 pages, a sprawling U.S.A. -style novel that, something like the John Dos Passos classic, follows a group of characters in parallel tracks as they traverse the America of 1897, taking in the Yukon gold rush, the Spanish-American War in the Philippines, and the advent of movies. Like all Sayles films and novels, it's drenched in a detailed, loving awareness of time and place." — Philadelphia Inquirer Absolutely vivid... Sayles's creative strengths are on full display." — Newsweek/The Daily Beast "In his most spectacular work of fiction to date, filmmaker Sayles combines wonder and outrage in a vigorous dramatization of overlooked and downright shameful aspects of turn-of-the-nineteenth-century America.… Crackling with rare historical details, spiked with caustic humor, and fueled by incandescent wrath over racism, sexism, and serial injustice against working people, Sayles' hard-driving yet penetrating and compassionate saga explicates the 'fever dream' of commerce, the crimes of war, and the dream of redemption." —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) "Though known best as a filmmaker ( Eight Men Out ), Sayles is also an accomplished novelist ( Union Dues ), whose latest will stand among the finest work on his impressive résumé. Weighing in at nearly 1,000 pages, the behemoth recalls E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime , Pynchon's Against the Day , and Dos Passos's USA trilogy, tracking mostly unconnected characters whose collective stories create a vast, kaleidoscopic panorama of the turn of the last century." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Sayles's cat-squasher of a book... pulls all his characters onto a huge global stage, setting them into motion as America goes to war against Spain and takes its first giant step toward becoming a world power. The narrative is full of historical lessons of the Howard Zinn/Studs Terkel radical-revisionist school, but Sayles is too good a writer to be a propagandist; his stories tell their own lessons and many will be surprises... [ A Moment in the Sun is] a long time in coming, with an ending that's one of the most memorable in recent literature. A superb novel." — Kirkus (starred review)
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