Life on The Sun

Life on The Sun
320 Pages
ISBN 978-1987482980

Douglas Armstrong’s new novel “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. In the aftermath of a suspicious fire that has killed a famous war protester, three headstrong strangers—a rookie newspaper reporter, a veteran rewrite man, and the antiwar martyr’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.

Douglas D Armstrong

About Douglas D Armstrong (Milwaukee, Wisconsin Author)

Douglas D Armstrong

Douglas Armstrong was born in Kansas, but his memories of it are largely second hand. When he was five, his family left Wichita and began moving every few years as his father climbed a corporate ladder. First it was Chicago, then Minneapolis, then San Francisco and then back again to Minneapolis. Over this span, his mother told him tales of life in a small Kansas town where she grew up. Those stories form the basis of his deeply rooted first novel, “Even Sunflowers Cast Shadows.”

Armstrong is not new to fiction. His short stories have appeared in a variety of magazines from Ellery Queen to Alfred Hitchcock to Boys’ Life. Short story writing was a sidelight for three decades to his main career as a newspaper reporter, editorial writer, columnist and film critic at The Milwaukee Journal and later the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Recently, he left journalism and turned to writing fiction full time.

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