Natchez at Sunset

ADELAIDE BOOKS is proud to present the latest work by Terry

Engel: Natchez at Sunset

“Terry Engel has written a wondrous novel. It’s the profound

romance of a man for the land, the grace of place, the sounds

and smells and sweat of real people in a real out-of-town

world, the not-so-well-to-do exurbs, smart people, sensitive

people, thoughtful people, doing their lives justice in a

place and a way we don’t read about so much these days. The

place is everywhere between cities and towns, the farmland,

clear cut, pasture land, fields of crops that surround us all.

In particular, in this case, outside of Natchez, Mississippi,

up on the bluff overlooking the big river, and down in the

hollows farther out of town. Natchez at Sunset is a remarkable

tour de force, a disclosure of what it’s like not in the

cities, not on the internet 14 hours a day, not in the cool

clubs or casinos or beaches, but out in the world of the cool

evening dirt, in the weeds, out by the livestock, in the woods

and down by a small river in these United States today. The

novel is a lovely, rich, detailed, rewarding story of a not

quite perfectly fitted couple rearranging themselves and a few

other favorite creatures so that the fit gets better over

time. It’ll please you and tease you and surprise you and,

eventually, shock and sadden you, break your heart in a dozen

pieces. Not the kind of thing you come across very often these

days. A book worthy of being cherished.” — Fredrick Barthelme,

an American novelist and short story writer