I really can't recommend this book highly enough, and I rarely publicly share my opinion of anything. It's such an engaging fictionalized account of turn-of-the-century America, a time that I'm rapidly growing to consider the most interesting period in American history. The characterization is vivid, the history is sound, and individual stories are deftly woven around each other to culminate in this masterful work. Looking forward to exploring some of John Sayles' earlier novels. Entertaining, though not especially profound, read. Had a very cinematic feel which makes sense given Sayles' directorial history. Very much to its credit that, though it's damn near a thousand pages, it felt half as long. Taut, muscular prose that's easy to get lost in without coming off as pretentious or derivative of the sort of authors that are normally brought up when that sort of writing gets mentioned. The only real issue I had was that Sayles often engages in a weird narrative practice where an omniscient narrative voice will take on the dialect and locutions of the character it's describing. On one hand, it would be easy to think of that voice as each character's thought processes if it weren't so broadly narrator-ish, on the other the voice seems to know too much. That aside, quite a ride.
What do You think about A Moment In The Sun (2011)?
good. wide sweeping story with great memorable lines. i'm only in the beginning got distracted...
—hjuyfhgksi
Mind = blown. A long, dense, difficult, but AMAZING book.
—hopefender
