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The Long Home Aug 21, 2015

by William Gay

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In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine - until he learns of it first-hand. Gay's remarkable debut novel, The Long Home, is also the story of Amber Rose, a beautiful young woman forced to live beneath that evil who recognizes even as a child that Nathan is her first and last chance at escape. And it is the story of William Tell Oliver, a solitary old man who watches the growing evil from the dark woods and adds to his own weathered guilt by failing to do anything about it.

Set in rural Tennessee in the 1940s, The Long Home will bring to mind once again the greatest Southern novelists and will haunt the reader with its sense of solitude , longing, and the deliverance that is always just out of reach.

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The Lost Country Jul 10, 2018

by Gay William

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Ten years after it was first announced, Dzanc is proud to deliver the lost novel from a master of the Southern Gothic—the work William Gay fans have anticipated for a decade.

Billy Edgewater is a harbinger of doom. Estranged from his family, discharged from the Navy, and touched by a rising desperation, he sets out hitchhiking home to East Tennessee, where his father is slowly dying.

On the road, separately, are Sudy and Bradshaw, brother and sister, and a one-armed con man named Roosterfish. All, in one way or another, have their pasts and futures embroiled with D.L. Harkness, a predator in all the ways there are. Hounded at every turn by scams, vigilantes, grievous loss, and unspeakable violence, Edgewater navigates the long road home, searching for a place that may be nothing but memory.

Hailed as “a seemingly effortless storyteller” by the New York Times Book Review and “a writer of striking talent” by the Chicago Tribune, William Gay, with this long-awaited novel, secures his place alongside Faulkner, O’Connor, and McCarthy as one of the greatest novelists in the Southern Gothic tradition.

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Wittgenstein's Lolita and the Iceman May 21, 2013

by William Gay, J. M. White

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Gay maps out a landscape of love and death, exploring the terrain where a person’s love of life interacts with their fear of the dark unknown. He portrays a character looking for love that reaches beyond deathwith occasional morbid consequences.

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Provinces of Night: A Novel Sep 4, 2009

by William Gay

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It’s 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth is finally coming home to Ackerman’s Field, Tennessee. Itinerant banjo picker and volatile vagrant, he’s been gone ever since he gunned down a deputy thirty years before. Two of his sons won’t be home to greet him: Warren lives a life of alcoholic philandering down in Alabama, and Boyd has gone to Detroit in vengeful pursuit of his wife and the peddler she ran off with. His third son, Brady, is still home, but he’s an addled soothsayer given to voodoo and bent on doing whatever it takes to keep E.F. from seeing the wife he abandoned. Only Fleming, E.F.’s grandson, is pleased with the old man’s homecoming, but Fleming’s life is soon to careen down an unpredictable path hewn by the beautiful Raven Lee Halfacre.

In the great Southern tradition of Faulkner, Styron, and Cormac McCarthy, William Gay wields a prose as evocative and lush as the haunted and humid world it depicts. Provinces of Night is a tale redolent of violence and redemption–a whiskey-scented, knife-scarred novel whose indelible finale is not an ending nearly so much as it is an apotheosis.

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I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories Oct 15, 2002

by William Gay

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William Gay firmly established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit" (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, and his critically acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night. Like Faulkner's Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy's American West, Gay's Tennessee is redolent of broken, colorful souls hard at work charting the pathos of their interior lives.

His debut collection, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, brings together what Gay's dedicated readers are eager for and what new readers will find the perfect introduction to his world: thirteen stories that are mined from this same fertile soil teeming with the grizzled, everyday folk that Gay is famous for bringing to life. In these pages readers meet old man Meecham, who escapes from his new nursing home only to find his son has rented their homestead to "white trash"; Quincy Nell Qualls, who not only falls in love with the town lothario but, pregnant, is faced with an inescapable end when he abandons her; Finis and Doneita Beasley, whose forty-year marriage is broken up by a dead dog; Bobby Pettijohn, who is awakened in the middle of the night by the noise and lights of a search party looking for clues after a body is discovered in his backwoods.

William Gay expertly sets these conflicted people who make bad choices in life and love against lush back-country scenery, and somehow manages to defy moral logic as we grow to love his characters for the weight of their human errors. Diverse as these tales are, what connects them is the powerful voice of a born storyteller.

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Little Sister Death: A Novel Sep 7, 2015

by William Gay

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David Binder is a young, successful writer living in Chicago and suffering from writer’s block. He stares at the blank page, and the blank page stares back harder. So when his agent suggests maybe a lighter sophomore novel, maybe something genre that they can sell real quick and buy him some more time to pen his magnum opus, he’s quick to recall an old ghost story he once heard. With his pregnant wife and his young daughter in toe, he sets out for Tennessee with high hopes of indulging the local lore surrounding Virginia Beale, Faery Queen of the Haunted Dell and whiling away the summer away from life in the city. But as his investigation goes further and further, and the creaking of the floor boards grows louder and louder, the David Binder realizes he’s not only endangered himself, but also his wife and daughter.

A stirring literary rendition of Tennessee's famed Curse of the Bell Witch, Little Sister Death skillfully toes the line between Southern Gothic and Horror and further cements William Gay’s legacy as not only one of the South’s finest writers, but among the best that American literature has to offer.

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Time Done Been Won't Be No More May 21, 2013

by William Gay

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Time Done Been Won’t Be No More: Collected Prose by William Gay is a collection of short stories, essays, memoirs, and an interview. Gay is well known for his fiction but he is also widely published with his essays, mostly dealing with music, and his memoirs. This is the first collection that includes his nonfiction prose. The elegant use of language that his readers have come to expect is as evident in his collected prose as it is in his novels.

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Stoneburner: William Gay (German Edition) Aug 15, 2020

by William Gay, Sven Koch, Jürgen Ruckh

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"Stoneburner" ist eine hard-boiled Detektivgeschichte, wie sie nur William Gay schreiben konnte. Sie spielt in der Mitte der 1970er Jahre und erzählt die Story um den abgestumpften Privatdetektiv Stoneburner; Thibodeaux, einen Redneck Vietnam-Veteranen; Cathy Meecham, der schönen jungen Blondine, und den Ex-Sheriff Cap Holder. Stoneburner hat sein Büro in Memphis aufgegeben, um am Ufer des Tennessee River zu leben. Dort lernt er Cap Holder kennen, der ein kleines Vermögen gemacht hatte, nachdem Hollywood einen Film produzierte, der auf seinen Heldentaten basierte. Holder hat mit den Drogendealern in seiner ländlichen Gegend aufgeräumt. Cap Holder beauftragt Stoneburner, seine junge Freundin und einen Koffer mit Drogengeldern wieder zu beschaffen, nachdem Cathy und der Koffer gleichzeitig verschwunden sind. Die Nachforschungen bringen Stoneburner in Kontakt mit Thibodeaux, den er aus seiner Jugendzeit kennt. Nun ist Thibodeaux ein unberechenbarer Trinker. Verfangen in ihrer Vergangenheit, kollidieren die miteinander verschlungenen Wege und Motive von Storneburner, Thibodeaux, Holder und Cathy.

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Stoneburner (French Edition) Oct 21, 2021

by William Gay, Jean-Paul Gratias

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Stoneburner et Thibodeaux sont rentrés du Vietnam fracassés. Le premier, détective privé qui rêve de se la couler douce, accepte de retrouver pour le compte d’un ancien shérif l’argent d’un deal de coke qui a capoté. Et si, pour le même prix, Stoneburner pouvait aussi lui ramener la blonde et sulfureuse Cathy…
Mais Thibodeaux a repéré la belle, ainsi que la valise pleine de billets verts déposée dans une voiture, la nuit, près d’une piste d’atterrissage désaffectée, et a pris la fuite avec elle. Étourdis par tant d’argent, ils ne cherchent même pas à brouiller leur piste. S’y engouffrent, l’un après l’autre, Stoneburner et un baron de la drogue local, fort mécontent d’avoir été roulé...

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La Demeure éternelle (SEUIL POLICIERS) (French Edition) Sep 20, 2012

by William Gay, Jean-Paul Gratias

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La demeure éternelle met en scène la confrontation entre deux générations, deux sortes d'hommes : Dallas Hardin, le Mal incarné, obsédé par l'argent et complètement insensible à la valeur d'une vie humaine, impose à tous sa volonté par la force et la ruse, protégé par l'impunité que lui confèrent son audace et sa cruauté. Nathan Winer, jeune et forte tête, travaille de ses mains, qu'il a costaudes, pour se nourrir, ainsi que sa mère : son père a disparu un beau matin de 1933 quand le gamin n'avait que 7 ans.

Dix ans plus tard, William Tell Oliver, le vieux ramasseur de ginseng qui a vu ce qui s'est réellement passé le jour de la disparition de Winer père et n'a rien dit sur le moment,

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