The Heat of the Sun: A Novel (edit title/settings)

Shelfari edited the characters of The Heat of the Sun: A Novel Saturday, December 22, 2012.

• Added a character: Eugene Telemachus
• Added a character: Mr Adams
• Added a character: Dan Elmsley
• Added a character: Mr Arnhem
• Added a character: Woodley Addison Sharpless
• Added a character: Mr Mendoza
• Added a character: Higashi Hill
• Added a character: Louise Brooks
• Added a character: Joe Boyd
• Added a character: Hirohito
• Added a character: Commodore Perry
• Added a character: Scotty Ridgeway
• Added a character: Maybee
• Added a character: Kate Pinkerton
• Added a character: Earl Pritchard
• Added a character: Calvin Coolidge
• Added a character: Puccini
• Added a character: Addison Sharpless
• Added a character: Morrison Reeves
• Added a character: Mr Le Vol
• Added a character: Prince Yamadori
• Added a character: Clifford T. Arnhem
• Added a character: Mr Pinkerton
• Added a character: Ralph Rex
• Added a character: Isamu
• Added a character: Mrs Vetch
• Added a character: Kiku
• Added a character: Hunter
• Added a character: Edward F. Scranway
• Added a character: Mr Gregg
• Added a character: Hoppy Hopkins
• Added a character: Mrs Pinkerton
• Added a character: Jane Russell
• Added a character: Michel
• Added a character: Chiang Kai-shek
• Added a character: Sophie Tucker
• Added a character: Robert Mitchum
• Added a character: Daisy Mountjoy
• Added a character: James M. Cox
• Added a character: Shikata
• Added a character: Maisie
• Added a character: Truman
• Added a character: B. F. Pinkerton
• Added a character: Mr Copley Wedger
• Added a character: Mama
• Added a character: Wainwright
• Added a character: Townsend
• Added a character: Mr Sharpless
• Added a character: McPherson
• Added a character: Agnes
• Added a character: S. L. Meyer
• Added a character: Cousin Essie
• Added a character: Grover Grayson III
• Added a character: Billy Billicay
• Added a character: McKenna
• Added a character: Goro
• Added a character: Mr Burl Blakey
• Added a character: Arnold Blitzstein
• Added a character: Suzuki
• Added a character: Glenn Miller
• Added a character: Arwin Janis Quirk
• Added a character: Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton
• Added a character: Frank Kane
• Added a character: Abraham Lincoln
• Added a character: Aunt Toolie
• Added a character: Tallulah Grayson

Shelfari approved its own request to combine 2 books, including The Heat of the Sun: A Novel, Sunday, December 16, 2012.

Shelfari submitted a request to combine 2 books, including The Heat of the Sun: A Novel, Sunday, December 16, 2012.

Cora R approved Dine’s request to change the contributors of The Heat of the Sun: A Novel Friday, December 7, 2012.

• Added a contributor: David Rain: (Primary Author)

Dine edited the contributors of The Heat of the Sun: A Novel Friday, November 23, 2012.

• Added a contributor: David Rain: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the subjects of The Heat of the Sun: A Novel Saturday, July 7, 2012.

• Added the subject: Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary

Shelfari edited the description of The Heat of the Sun: A Novel Saturday, July 7, 2012.

• An exuberant debut that sweeps across the twentieth century—beginning where one world-famous love story left off to introduce us to another With Sophie Tucker belting from his hand-crank phonograph and a circle of boarding-school admirers laughing uproariously around him, Ben "Trouble" Pinkerton first appears to us through the amazed eyes of his Blaze Academy schoolmate, the crippled orphan Woodley Sharpless. Soon Woodley finds his life inextricably linked with this strange boy's. The son of Lieutenant Benjamin Pinkerton and the geisha Madame Butterfly, Trouble is raised in the United States by Pinkerton (now a Democrat senator) and his American wife, Kate. From early in life, Trouble finds himself at the center of some of the biggest events of the century—and though over time Woodley's and Trouble's paths diverge, their lives collide again to dramatic effect. From Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, to WPA labor during the Great Depression; from secret work at Los Alamos, New Mexico, to a revelation on a Nagasaki hillside by the sea—Woodley observes firsthand the highs and lows of the twentieth century and witnesses, too, the extraordinary destiny of the Pinkerton family. David Rain's The Heat of the Sun is a high-wire act of sustained invention—as playful as it is ambitious, as moving as it is theatrical, and as historically resonant as it is evocative of the powerful bonds of friendship and of love.