Larry Watson Sundown Yellow Moon 2008 Retail EPUB eBook-BitBook

| Sundown, Yellow Moon |
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| DATE: 2012-07-06 SIZE: 429,12KB DISKS: 01_______4,77MB PAGES: |
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| PUBLISHER: Random House Publishing Group GENRE: Fiction |
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| AUTHOR: Larry Watson |
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| FORMAT: EPUB PROTECTION: DRM EDITION: |
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| URL: http://is_gd/RrkWZN |
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| LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978-1-58836-819-5 |
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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. :
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: 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. :
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: 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. :
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: 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. :