The Sun Collective
A Novel
by Charles Baxter
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Pub Date Nov 17 2020 | Archive Date Sep 23 2021
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Pantheon
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Description
A timely and unsettling novel about the people drawn to and unmoored by a local activist group more dangerous than it appears—from the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune).
Once a promising actor, Tim Brettigan has gone missing. His father thinks he may have seen him among some homeless people. And though she knows he left on purpose, his mother has been searching for him all over the city. She checks the usual places—churches, storefronts, benches—and stumbles upon a local community group with lofty goals and an enigmatic leader who will alter all of their lives. Christina, a young woman rapidly becoming addicted to a boutique drug that gives her a feeling of blessedness, is inexplicably drawn to the same collective by a man who’s convinced he may start a revolution. As the lives of these four characters intertwine, a story of guilt, anxiety, and feverish hope unfolds in the city of Minneapolis.
A vision of modern American society and the specters of the consumerism, fanaticism, and fear that haunt it, The Sun Collective captures both the mystery and the violence that punctuate our daily lives.
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Advance Praise
PRAISE FOR CHARLES BAXTER:
“Very few writers excel at both novels and short stories, but Charles Baxter is one of the gifted few who have. From the start of his career, his accomplishments in each have been clear and stunning . . . His work is subtly political and emotionally precise, whether registering the moods and faces of strangers or the complex of fond and hateful ways ordinary Americans converse.” —Award of Merit, American Academy of Arts and Letters
“Charles Baxter is nothing short of a national literary treasure. To read—hilarious, tragic, surprising, and indelibly human—is to receive revelation at the hands of a master. Who but this writer has such intimate knowledge of our most shameful depths, and who else can illuminate them with such stunning aptness of word and thought?” —Julie Orringer, author of How to Breathe Under Water
“Baxter evokes something like the chilling starkness and human isolation of the work of Edward Hopper . . . [He] is a warmly disposed yet unsentimental chronicler of American lives.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Charles Baxter’s stories proceed with steady grace, nimble humor, quiet authority, and thrilling ingeniousness . . . All are on display—as are his honoring of the mysteries of love and his dramatic explorations of American manners, mores, family, solitude, and art. He is a great writer.” —Lorrie Moore, author of Bark
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781524748852 |
| PRICE | $27.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 336 |
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