“Passion, loneliness, decadence, and sexuality are all powerfully portrayed in this beautifully written novel.” - Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants
“Robert Goolrick has created a mesmerizing, evocative novel brimming with passion and tragedy. His portrait of a depleted Southern family, hoping to reinvigorate itself and its magnificently neglected estate, is at once thrilling and devastating. We can smell the decay of the house, feel the worn velvet, visualize the peeling wallpaper. But, most of all, we can empathize with the doomed characters as they walk the hallways and the grounds, desperate to find what they are looking for—love? hope? redemption?—or maybe that thing we all seek: a place to call home.” - Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
“The unique intense richness of The Dying of The Light makes this novel a fevered dream of sacrifice, sex, luxury, manners, honor, violence, submission, tragedy, destiny, secrets, beauty and melancholy that holds you in an embrace that tightens through the novel, leaving you spent and transformed. Few writers approach this level of detail, but Goolrick’s story is also very human, and the culminating romance both fills and breaks your heart.” - Joan Juliet Buck, former editor of Vogue Paris and author of The Price of Illusion
“The unique intense richness of The Dying of The Light makes this novel a fevered dream of sacrifice, sex, luxury, manners, honor, violence, submission, tragedy, destiny, secrets, beauty and melancholy that holds you in an embrace that tightens through the novel, leaving you spent and transformed.” - Joan Juliet Buck, former editor of Vogue Paris and author of The Price of Illusion
“Robert Goolrick has created a mesmerizing, evocative novel brimming with passion and tragedy. His portrait of a depleted Southern family, hoping to reinvigorate itself and its magnificently neglected estate, is at once thrilling and devastating.” - Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
“Goolrick’s best book yet. A brilliant mashup of all the old greats, Faulkner and Fitzgerald and DH Lawrence, The Dying of the Light reads like Absolom, Absolom! meets The Great Gatsby meets Lady Chatterley’s Lover.” - Philipp Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of The Son.
“This sweeping and layered tale follows the life of Diana Cook Copperton Cooke—a Southern beauty who is sacrificed by her family to repair their fortune—as she experiences and inspires love, desire, jealousy and rage. The characters are memorable, eccentric, and all too human as their needs and passions draw them together and tear them apart. Goolrick shows real insight into the workings of the human mind, particularly when he demonstrates the chasm between what his characters should do and their inability to do it, even when they know it would make them happy. Passion, loneliness, decadence, and sexuality are all powerfully portrayed in this beautifully written novel.” - Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants