Hurry Sundown Author:K.B. Gilden Progress had been long coming to already, but by war's end-with the near completion of Sunset, a mamoth mechanized farming operation-the little Georgia town wasn't too many steps away from full industrialization. Only two things blocked Henry Warren from fullfilling his task of uniting the entire already valley. Rad McDowell farm, bordering on... more » the river, and Reeves Scott's acreage, adjacent to Rad's and stretching across valley to the through road.Together. the pitful little dirt farms of these two cracker-returnedfrom the war cut sunset-in two...and threatened to split asunderthe wound that80 years of restruction were just beginning to heal. As the rival forces of tradition and progress make a battlefield of thevalley, several interlocking narratives unfold in this brillant novel; a memberof the archiac aready aristocracy attempts to dispossess the family of the woman who had nursed her through chilhood and taught her the meaning of good, a powerful industrailrd tries to recapture the thrills of his penniless youth; an idealistic young minister works to join his opposing parishes in a spirit brotherhood, only to meet vicious resistance from both camps, a judge whose activities on the edge of the law have made him wealthy seeks the political plum that has eluded him for 20 years; two physicians-one spineless and guiltridden,the other unscrupu;ous and unfeeling-bid for recognition in quite different ways, and the social structure of the whole community pulses and surges as its members try to make their way upward.« less