Then Came the Evening

✍ Scribed by Brian Hart

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Year: 1999;2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 135 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1408808153

✦ Synopsis

Bandy Dorner, home from Vietnam, awakes with his car mired in a canal, his cabin reduced to ashes, and his pregnant wife preparing to leave town with her lover. Within moments, a cop lies bleeding in the road. Eighteen years later, Bandy's son -- a stranger bearing his name -- returns to the town, where the memory of his father's crime still hangs thick. When an accident brings the family -- paroled father, widowed mother, injured son -- back together, the three must confront their past, and struggle against their fate. Like a traditional Greek tragedy, suffused with the mud, ice, and rock of the raw Idaho landscape, Then Came the Evening is tautly plotted and emotionally complex -- a stunning debut. An unflinchingly, gorgeously written literary debut from a writer earning comparisons to Cormac McCarthy Born in Idaho, Brian Hart spent years working as a janitor, carpenter, welder, commercial fisherman, and framer of elevator shafts before earning his...