A Moment in the Sun (Hardcover) by John Sayles

from Grendelschoice

Truly one of the most breathtaking, epic, sprawling works of historical fiction you will ever read. Sayles (best known as film director for such movies as "Eight Men Out" and "Lone Star") has clearly done extensive research into the most tumultuous events of turn-of-the-century America, and conne...

from jonfaith

There was an element of Papa's dictum in my reading of John Sayles' doorstop qua cinder block of a narrative, it sat gradually until suddenly I devoured its 1000 pages. My cheekiest nod to the novel is that its as if the Chums of Chance (Pynchon's creations in Against The Day) chose to chronicle ...

from jonfaith

There was an element of Papa's dictum in my reading of John Sayles' doorstop qua cinder block of a narrative, it sat gradually until suddenly I devoured its 1000 pages. My cheekiest nod to the novel is that its as if the Chums of Chance (Pynchon's creations in Against The Day) chose to chronicle ...

from JFBallenger

Why would anyone want to read this 950 page novel about dimly remembered events of a century ago -- the Yukon Gold Rush, the violent reassertion of White supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina, the rise of mass culture in the urban North, and America's rise to world power in the Spanish American...

from BobNolin

As good as this book is, it could have been much better, and appealed to a much wider audience. Here it is, two years after the book's release, and it is already out of print. The time between the Civil War and the First World War is a portion of history unknown to most people. There really isn't...