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...Sunlight Dialogues...
WITH THEIR recent reissue of--among other Gardner books--The Sunlight Dialogues, his lengthiest and best work, Vintage Books is helping to resolve that controversy. There was always the suspicion that because Gardner's books were set in the 1960's and reflected the turbulence of that period so well, they were somehow limited to that time. Yet even though we are now in the latter half of the the supposedly calm and reflective '80s, The Sunlight Dialogues, first published in 1972, is as fresh and pertinent as ever...
...Sunlight Dialogues is a book about law and order combatting chaos. The two sides of this battle are personified by the book's two main characters, one an ineffectual police chief named Fred Clumly, the other a crazed magician who calls himself The Sunlight Man. They are brought together in a small community in upstate New York after the Sunlight Man is arrested for painting the word "LOVE" in large letters across and entrance to the New York State Thruway. With the aid of his conjuring tricks, The Sunlight Man breaks out of jail and begins to conduct a series...
...contrast and in competition with Clumly's resigned attitude is The Sunlight Man's rebellious anarchy. From the start, The Sunlight Man represents a chaotic presence somehow beyond the Clumly's comprehension...
...House Iranscam committee to go along with his request for delay. He had a harder time convincing the Senators. "The independent counsel wishes the committees didn't exist," says a source close to the Senate panel. "We wish he didn't exist. The Congress wants to let in the sunlight. The independent counsel has to work in grand jury secrecy...