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Random House
September 2007
On Sale: September 11, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0375507221
EAN: 9780375507229
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On an icy day in January 1961, in Bismarck, North Dakota, a
sixteen-year-old boy walks home from high school with his
best friend, Gene. The sudden sound of sirens startles and
excites them, but they don’t have long to wonder what the
sound could mean. Soon after seeing police cars parked on
their street, the boys learn the shocking truth: hours
before, Gene’s father, Raymond Stoddard, walked calmly and
purposefully into the state capitol and shot to death a
charismatic state senator. Raymond then drove home and
hanged himself in his garage. The horrific murder and suicide leave the community reeling.
Speculation about Raymond’s motives run rampant. Political
scandal, workplace corruption, financial ruin, adultery, and
jealousy are all cited as possible catalysts. But in the
end, the truth behind the day’s events died with those two
men. And for Gene and his friend, the tragedy is a turning
point, both in their lives and in their friendship. Nearly forty years later, Gene’s friend, a writer, revisits
the tragedy and tries to unravel the mystery behind one
man’s inexplicable actions. Through his own recollections
and his fiction–sometimes impossible to separate–he attempts
to make sense of a senseless act and, in the process, to
examine his youth, his friendship with Gene, and the love
they both had for a beautiful girl named Marie. Spare, haunting, lyrical, Sundown, Yellow Moon is a piercing
study of love and betrayal, grief and desire, youth and
remembrance. Using a brilliant, evocative
fiction-within-fiction structure, Larry Watson not only
brings to life a distinct period in history but, most
affectingly, reveals the interplay of memory, secrets, and
the passage of time.
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