The sun collective

Resource Information

The work The sun collective represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Thunder Bay Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The sun collective

Statement of responsibility

Charles Baxter

Creator

• Baxter, Charles, 1947-

Subject

• Missing persons -- Fiction
• Political fiction
• Minneapolis (Minn.) -- Fiction
• Social groups -- Fiction

Genre

• Political fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

From National Book Award finalist, Charles Baxter, a timely and unsettling new novel about the people drawn to and unmoored by a local activist group more dangerous than it appears. Brettigan's son, a once promising actor, has gone missing, and despite the fact that his wife, Alma, knows he left on purpose, she has been searching for him all over the city. She checks the usual places, churches, storefronts, and benches, and stumbles upon a local community group with lofty goals and an enigmatic leader. Christina, a young woman rapidly becoming addicted to a boutique drug that gives her a feeling of blessedness, is inexplicably drawn to the same collective by a man who's convinced he's found direction, named Ludlow. As these five characters cross paths, a story of guilt, anxiety, and feverish hope unfolds in suburban, middle-class Minneapolis. A send-up of modern American society and the specters of its consumerism, fanaticism, and fear that haunt it, The Sun Collective captures both the mystery and violence that punctuate our daily lives

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction