Douglas Armstrong

Life on The Sun Douglas Armstrong

Life on The Sun spans ten days of anger and confusion in a bygone era of love beads, tear gas, and manual typewriters. It's July 1967, and war is raging in Vietnam. Following a suspicious fire that has killed a famous war protester, three headstrong strangers-a rookie newspaper reporter, a veteran rewrite man, and the anti-war fugitive's bereaved girlfriend-clash as the mystery of his murder unfolds in their revolving viewpoints. This sometimes darkly comic novel, set against the eccentric inner workings of a metropolitan daily newspaper, is a remembrance of tumultuous times when lives were disrupted or destroyed by war's far-reaching consequences.