The Sun Walks Down

McFarlane, Fiona

ISBN 10: 0374606234 / ISBN 13: 9780374606237

Published by FSG, 2022

About this Item

Available is a SIGNED 1st ed/1st prtg, w/ complete numberline to "1", of THE SUN WALKS DOWN by FIONA MCFARLANE. Published in 2022 by FSG, book and mylar protected dust jacket are AS NEW. Original price of $28.00 intact. The author has signed w/out inscription on title page. A perfect copy, SIGNED.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sun Walks Down
• Publisher: FSG
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374606234
• ISBN 13: 9780374606237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Short-Listed for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal
Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and Chicago Public Library

“The Sun Walks Down is the book I’m always longing to find: brilliant, fresh, and compulsively readable. It is marvelous. I loved it start to finish.” ―Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House

Fiona McFarlane’s blazingly brilliant new novel, The Sun Walks Down, tells the many-voiced, many-sided story of a boy lost in colonial Australia.

In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the entire community is caught up in the search for him. As they scour the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly―newlyweds, farmers, mothers, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, artists, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen―confront their relationships, both with one another and with the land­scape they inhabit.

The colonial Australia of The Sun Walks Down is noisy with opinions, arguments, longings, and terrors. It’s haunted by many gods―the sun among them, rising and falling on each day in which Denny could be found, or lost forever.

Told in many ways and by many voices, Fiona McFarlane’s new novel pulses with love, art, and the unbearable divine. It arrives like a vision, mythic and bright with meaning.

About the Author

Fiona McFarlane is the author of The Night Guest; The High Places, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize; and The Sun Walks Down. Her short fiction has been published in The New Yorker and Zoetrope: All-Story. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.