'The Sunlight Dialogues' by John Gardiner
Publisher:  Arrow Books
Published: 1984
Genre: 
Literature
Classics
Nostalgia (the 1960's)
Cultural (American)
 
Details:
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 rawest, vulnerable, and conflicting characters in the American melting pot, he transmutes common denominators of human isolation and longing. 
 
Condition: 
Very good
 
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