The sunlight dialogues

John Gardner

Original title: The Sunlight Dialogues

earliest edition we have, 1972 Knopf; [distributed by Random House], 1972 673 pages

Arena Bks

The novel is set in the 1960s in Batavia, New York. It follows Batavia police chief Fred Clumly in his pursuit of a magician known as the Sunlight Man, a champion of existential freedom and pre-biblical Babylonian philosophy. As Clumly believes in absolute law, order, justice and a Judeo-Christian world view, the two butt their ideological heads in a number of dialogues, all recorded on audiocassette by Clumly. Each...

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The sunlight dialogues edition · 1987 · Vintage Books · 746 pages
Sunlight Dialogues. edition · 1984 · Arrow Bks. · 738 pages
Der Ruhestörer oder Die Gespräche mit dem Sonnen-Mann edition · 1977 · Rowohlt
Sunlight Dialogues edition · 1975 · Ballantine Books · 9780345237682
The sunlight dialogues edition · 1973 · Cape · 674 pages
The sunlight dialogues edition · 1973 · Ballantine Books · 746 pages
The sunlight dialogues edition · 1972 · Knopf; [distributed by Random House] · 673 pages

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