Sundown, Yellow Moon: A Novel - Hardcover

Watson, Larry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375507221 ISBN 13: 9780375507229

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2007

Synopsis

More than forty years after his best friend Gene's father shoots and kills a charismatic state senator in Bismarck, North Dakota, and then commits suicide, a writer attempts to unravel the mystery behind one man's tragic actions through a series of short stories in which he tries to make sense of senseless acts and examines their impact on two teenage friends and the girl they both love. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Watson succeeds impressively, especially in deepening our understanding of first love."
-Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune

"A marvelous evocation of a time and place and of high school existence when it was considerably less ferocious than it is today . . . [Sundown, Yellow Moon] twitches aside the curtain to reveal the menace and mendacity lurking behind placid and mundane lives."
-Minneapolis Star Tribune

"[An] oddly heartbreaking story: allowed to run amok, the past becomes a monster capable of devouring the present."
-Booklist

About the Author:

Larry Watson is the author of In a Dark Time, Montana 1948, Justice, White Crosses, Laura, and Orchard. He has won the Milkweed Fiction Prize, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Award, and numerous other literary prizes. He lives with his wife in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0375507221
• ISBN 13: 9780375507229
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 309