Sayles Upcoming Novel: A Moment in the Sun

[rich]

think its an indication of today's publishing world that Sayles had
major trouble getting it published.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Ian Livingston
<igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, I look forward to reading this! Sayles has been pretty steady
> with the sort of thematic elements mentioned here. Matewan was
> terrific.
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> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:02 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> how can Pynchon not review this novel. in any case it will be
>> interesting to contrast and compare with AtD
>>
>> “In his most spectacular work of fiction to date, filmmaker Sayles
>> combines wonder and outrage in a vigorous dramatization of overlooked
>> and downright shameful aspects of turn-of-the-nineteenth-century
>> America. Fascinated by the roiling nation’s multicultural spectrum and
>> human impulses corrupt and altruistic, Sayles re-creates the ferment
>> and conflicts of the Yukon gold rush, hobo life, New York’s
>> sweatshops, the race riot and white supremacist coup in Wilmington,
>> North Carolina, and the covered-up horrors of the Philippine-American
>> War (the focus of Sayles’s forthcoming film, Amigo). Real-life figures
>> appear, including President McKinley and his assassin and
>> anti-imperialist Mark Twain, but it is Sayles’ vital invented
>> characters who rule, from sweet, hapless Hod, who survives the
>> brutality of mines, the boxing ring, jail, and the military without
>> losing his faith in romance, to his wry Native American road buddy,
>> Big Ten; the Luncefords, a cultured African American family that
>> suffers an appalling reversal of fortune; Mei, a Chinese woman forced
>> into prostitution; and Diosdado, a young Filipino rebel. Crackling
>> with rare historical details, spiked with caustic humor, and fueled by
>> incandescent wrath over racism, sexism, and serial injustice against
>> working people, Sayles’ hard-driving yet penetrating and compassionate
>> saga explicates the ‘fever dream’ of commerce, the crimes of war, and
>> the dream of redemption.”
>>
>> Donna Seaman, Booklist
>>
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> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
> creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
> trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
> of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
> than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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