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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...
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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,...
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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...
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El hombre se encamina al hogar eterno y rondan ya en la calle los que lloran su muerte.»
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Nathan Winer trabaja sin saberlo para el hombre que mató a su padre, Dallas Hardin, un déspota que tiene a todo el pueblo metido en el bolsillo y que le ha contratado para construir un garito clandestino en mitad del bosque. Alcohol ilegal, putas, soldados borrachos y timbas de póquer. La joven y tórrida Amber Rose sabe que seducir a Winer...
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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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From a celebrated master of the Southern Gothic comes a last collection
of hard-hitting short fiction, his final posthumous work
Beloved for his novels Twilight, The Long Home, and The Lost Country
and his groundbreaking collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down,
William Gay returns with one final posthumous collection of short stories, adapted
from the archive found after his death in February 2012. In addition to previously
unpublished...
9) Twilight
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When Kenneth and Corrie Tyler become suspicious of the town undertaker, they attempt to discover the truth. But what they find is far worse than they had feared.
10) That evening sun
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Fleeing the retirement home where his son abandoned him, Abner Meecham sets out to reclaim his beloved Tennessee farmstead, only to find it's been leased to an old enemy, the volatile Lonzo Choat. After Abner intervenes to protect Choat's daughter from her drunken father's abuse, events spiral toward a startling, violent climax.
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