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A Moment in the Sun - by John Sayles

PostPosted: September 5th, 2011, 6:41 pm
by Wanda
Has anyone heard / read of this? I just came from Fully Booked and it caught my attention - it's by an American author with a Filipino protagonist, Diosdado Concepcion. BEAUTIFUL book, hardcover, awesome design, surprisingly LIGHT for a pretty solid-looking 1000-page tome.

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Amazon:
It’s 1897. Gold has been discovered in the Yukon. New York is under the sway of Hearst and Pulitzer. And in a few months, an American battleship will explode in a Cuban harbor, plunging the U.S. into war. Spanning five years and half a dozen countries, this is the unforgettable story of that extraordinary moment: the turn of the twentieth century, as seen by one of the greatest storytellers of our time.

Shot through with a lyrical intensity and stunning detail that recall Doctorow and Deadwood both, A Moment in the Sun takes the whole era in its sights—from the white-racist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina to the bloody dawn of U.S. interventionism in the Philippines. Beginning with Hod Brackenridge searching for his fortune in the North, and hurtling forward on the voices of a breathtaking range of men and women—Royal Scott, an African American infantryman whose life outside the military has been destroyed; Diosdado Concepcíon, a Filipino insurgent fighting against his country’s new colonizers; and more than a dozen others, Mark Twain and President McKinley’s assassin among them—this is a story as big as its subject: history rediscovered through the lives of the people who made it happen.

Re: A Moment in the Sun - by John Sayles

PostPosted: September 12th, 2011, 3:56 pm
by malot1182
Hmm not yet. I'll put it in my list.

Re: A Moment in the Sun - by John Sayles

PostPosted: September 12th, 2011, 5:11 pm
by Memnoch26
hmmm.. looks interesting...