The Sunlight Dialogues (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: John Gardner
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Mid-1960’s
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Values
- Locales: Batavia, NY
Places Discussed
*Batavia (ba-TAY-vee-uh). Large town in western New York, near the Great Lakes. Author John Gardner was born in Batavia and spent most of his youth there. His novel The Resurrection (1966) creates a Batavia that geographically resembles the Batavia he knew. Unlike The Resurrection, whose protagonist leaves and returns to Batavia and contrasts his idealized memory of the town with the present reality of its changes, the central characters in The Sunlight Dialogue are life-long residents of Batavia. They notice its small changes...
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