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Sunrise
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Sunrise is a tale of illusion, loss and renewal in a tragic age. Set in Manhattan, and in the fashionable beach towns of Long Island's East End, it follows the interwoven lives of three friends from the late 1960s to the present-exploring the confluence of art, commerce, politics and celebrity.

With its perfectly rendered physical setting, Sunrise draws readers into the reality of place and the universality of myth in a daring, Modernist style.

Stephen Dahl, the narrator of Sunrise, is a troubled child of the 60s, an expatriate American author living in Paris, an alcoholic who has stopped drinking but failed to recover his spiritual equilibrium. Watching the horrors of September 11th from his Paris apartment, he is struck by renewed patriotism which vanishes quickly as America plans to invade Iraq. But he is called home in the Spring of 2003 by the death of his former best friend and by the chance to see his former lover, the widow of his old friend. Thus begins Stephen's journey to a past that reveals complex layers of moral and spiritual responsibility to his country, his countrymen and himself. Stephen confronts an uncertain future by accepting the moral limits of despair and the power of compassion.

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateDec 5, 2007
ISBN9780595907755
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Robert Crooke

Robert Crooke is a journalist, media executive and teacher. His poetry has been published in the West Hills Review, the literary journal of the Walt Whitman Birthplace in Long Island. He has lectured at the University of Connecticut, the University of Nebraska, New York University, and Suff olk County Community College. He began his career as a sports reporter and columnist for the Long Island Press and for thirteen years served as North American press spokesman for Reuters. His three prior novels, American Family (2005), Sunrise (2007), and Th e Earth and Its Sorrows (2010), have received generous critical praise. He and his wife live in Bridgewater, CT.

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