Bienville revisited: Winston Groom's 'Gone the Sun' still hits close to home

After Vietnam, Groom began a career at the Washington Star. If it is nothing else, "Gone the Sun" is a tender and intimately detailed love letter to the newsroom. Gunn's journalism career starts with a fortuitous social encounter with the editor of the Washington Times-Examiner. The chapter ends thusly:

"Beau stood for a moment pondering this stroke of fortune. He must be telling the truth, Beau thought, because he remembered glancing down at T.Y. Miller's feet and noticing he was wearing brown shoes with his tuxedo. Only a newspaperman would do that."

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