Gone by Sundown

by Peter Leach

Overview

Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award.:
2012 Independent Publisher Book Award-Bronze Medal for Best Regional Fiction: Mid-West

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781928589617
Publisher:	Gival Press
Publication date:	10/01/2011
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Peter Leach was born and grew up in St. Louis. He spent two years in the Cold War army in Germany, then studied playwriting at Yale Drama School, and currently teaches in the night-school at Washington University in St. Louis. His short story collection Tales of Resistance won the George Garrett Prize and was published by Texas Review Press in 1999. His work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Minnesota Review, Indiana Review, River Styx, Panache, Artful Doge, and Kansas Quarterly. One of his stories was reprinted in an O. Henry Awards and another in an NYU Press Best Little Magazine Fiction. His story “The Convict’s Tale” won the Nebraska Review fiction prize. Leach received a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship.

Editorial Reviews

"Almost no other novel treats the creation of sundown towns. Gone by Sundown thus amounts to a one-volume antidote to American amnesia. On top of that, it's a good read."—James W. Loewen

James W. Loewen

"Gone by Sundown takes us into a world and sensibility that is fresh, resonant and provocative. Peter Leach writes of a great wrong done by ordinary people, and does so with quiet fervor, displaying sadness and pity for all."—Daniel Woodrell

Daniel Woodrell

"Gone by Sundown is an extremely timely novel that traces the origins of a racist atrocity and its effects on residents from bottom-dwelling working class blacks and whites, to the 'French colored' and merchants higher up the social ladder, to union agitators and mine owners at the top of local society. Peter Leach has the story-teller’s heart of Harper Lee and the sociologist’s eye of Frank Norris. —Tim W. Brown

Tim W. Brown