2 volume set Doubleday & Co, Book Club Edition, 1964 cloth cover, 1135 pages Hurry Sundown is the tumultuous tale of a year in the life of the citizens of Arcady Georgia. It is a study of moral conviction and inner struggles and of love and mistrust in the lives of the residents of a small town just after WWII. The characters are real, they act a certain way and then question their deeds, struggle with their motives or twist the truth to justify their actions. They grapple with the tension of race and religion,the struggle between honesty, moral obligation, sexual immorality, spirituality. They wrestle with self doubt, self righteousness, the need to be noticed, the need to be needed, the fear of the unknown - the fear of the known Made into a movie starring Jane Fonda & Michael Caine in 1967