Long Time Gone

About the Book

A Dome Press Novel

Vernon Case is missing. For Cal Stewart, a disc jockey in Harriet, Mississippi, Vernon is much more than a runaway. He is the only heir of Po Case, the old man who raised Cal like a father. With an oath to bring Vernon home, Cal is caught up in the winds that whip the American firestorm in 1968, the year of RFK and King and Daley’s army in Chicago.

A Detroit Buddhist who peddles tropical fish, a ghost of a best friend, a dark angel in a Philadelphia tenement, a band gone underground on the Boston wharves, a girl-woman lover and soulmate—all swirl together in the river of change that sweeps Cal from his homeland to another America. For Cal and everyone he meets, and for all who knew that precious time or want to know it, Long Time Gone is the way it was.

About the Author

Richard Sanford came of age in the sixties in a small southern town. His high school memories are of a place suspended in time while the country outside clamored with change. He has served as an editor of a small press and owned a pizza restaurant in Chicago. He believes he has had two perfect jobs, one as a mate on a charter boat, the other as a project manager of electronic novels. Mr. Sanford has pubished poetry, short stories, and a play. He lives in the Puget Sound region with his wife and daughter. Long Time Gone is his third published novel.