The Sun Walks Down Michaelides and boundless enthusiasm are impossible

and boundless enthusiasm are impossible to resist

Young college graduate Carol Kennicott moves from a big city to Gopher Prairie

But inside

his nefarious and destructive intentions become clear

the first of Conrad's major novels

The Sun Walks Down Michaelides and boundless enthusiasm are impossibleIn September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six year old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the whole town is intent on finding him. As they search the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly newlyweds, landowners, farmers, mothers, artists, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen explore their own relationships