Ebook {Epub PDF} The Dying of the Light by Robert Goolrick

American author Robert Goolrick's latest novel, "The Dying of the Light", is set in a huge house, along Virginia's Rappahannock River. The time is the 's to the 's and the characters and the plot seem as if they're straight out of a Southern Gothic playbook. Is that bad; doesn't the reading world need more Southern Gothic novels?Reviews:  · THE DYING OF THE LIGHT. by Robert Goolrick ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 3, A blue-blooded Southern belle’s grandiose life is upended by the desire that consumes her. Goolrick (The Fall of Princes, , etc.) returns to the gothic influences that marked his first two novels, heightened here by an operatic arc that doesn’t quite ring true. Reveling in the secrets, mores, and society of 20th-century genteel Southern life, The Dying of the Light is a romance, a melodrama, and a cautionary tale told .

The Dying of the Light Robert Goolrick. Harper, $ (p) ISBN Buy this book. Goolrick (A Reliable Wife) tells the intriguing and heartbreaking story of American debutante. "Goolrick's best book yet. A brilliant mashup of all the old greats, Faulkner and Fitzgerald and DH Lawrence, The Dying of the Light reads like Absolom, Absolom! meets The Great Gatsby meets Lady Chatterley's Lover." -- Philipp Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of The Son. American author Robert Goolrick's latest novel, "The Dying of the Light", is set in a huge house, along Virginia's Rappahannock River. The time is the 's to the 's and the characters and the plot seem as if they're straight out of a Southern Gothic playbook.

Reveling in the secrets, mores, and society of twentieth-century genteel Southern life, The Dying of the Light is a romance, a melodrama, and a cautionary tale told with the grandeur and sweep of an epic Hollywood classic. Read Full Overview. Related collections and offers. Product Details. American author Robert Goolrick's latest novel, "The Dying of the Light", is set in a huge house, along Virginia's Rappahannock River. The time is the 's to the 's and the characters and the plot seem as if they're straight out of a Southern Gothic playbook. Is that bad; doesn't the reading world need more Southern Gothic novels?. Reveling in the secrets, mores, and society of twentieth-century genteel Southern life, The Dying of the Light is a romance, a melodrama, and a cautionary tale told with the grandeur and sweep of an epic Hollywood classic. From the Back Cover. It begins with a house and ends in ashes.