Stoneburner: Gay, William: 9780998980904: Books

Contents:

• BT OF WILLIAM GAY
• WILLIAM GAY DI AT 70; WRER TIED TO TENNSEE

BT OF WILLIAM GAY

In a lerary voice that is both origal and powerfully unsettlg, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Wer, a young and headstrong Tennsee rpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy n image - until he learns of first-hand. Gay's remarkable but novel, The Long Home, is also the story of Amber Rose, a betiful young woman forced to live beneath that evil who regniz even as a child that Nathan is her first and last chance at pe.

WILLIAM GAY DI AT 70; WRER TIED TO TENNSEE

’s grandson, is pleased wh the old man’s homeg, but Flemg’s life is soon to reen down an unpredictable path hewn by the betiful Raven Lee the great Southern tradn of Flkner, Styron, and Cormac McCarthy, William Gay wields a prose as evotive and lh as the hnted and humid world picts.

William Gay expertly sets the nflicted characters agast lh backuntry scenery and fi our moral logic as we grow to love them for the weight of their human 2009 film, That Eveng Sun, was based on the short story I Hate to See That Eveng Sun Go Down. Gay maps out a landspe of love and ath, explorg the terra where a person's love of life teracts wh their fear of the dark unknown. What follows is an adventure through the Harrik, an eerie backwoods filled wh tangled roads, sted machery, and eccentric squatters—old men, wch, and fai among them—who both shield and imperil Tyler as he ns for his poetic, hntg prose, William Gay rewr the l of the gothic fairytale while explorg the classic Southern them of good and evil.

William Gay is well known for his fictn but he is also wily published wh his says, mostly alg wh mic, and his memoirs. A stirrg lerary rendn of Tennsee’s famed Curse of the Bell Wch, Ltle Sister Death skillfully to the le between Southern Gothic and horror, and further cements William Gay’s legacy as not only one of the South’s ft wrers, but among the bt that Amerin lerature has to offer. Ten years after was first announced, Dzanc Books is proud to liver the lost novel om a master of the Southern Gothic―the work William Gay fans have anticipated for a Edgewater is a harbger of doom.

Hound at every turn by sms, vigilant, grievo loss, and unspeakable vlence, Edgewater navigat the long road home, searchg for a place that may be nothg but as “a seemgly effortls storyteller” by the New York Tim Book Review and “a wrer of strikg talent” by the Chigo Tribune, William Gay, wh this long-awaed novel, secur his place alongsi Flkner, O’Connor, and McCarthy as one of the greatt novelists the Southern Gothic tradn. Published by The Universy of Wt Alabama’s Livgston his last posthumo novel, William Gay has offered admirable homage to Mark Twa's Huckleberry Fn. Every hardscrabble thg we have e to expect om Gay li this novel, cludg an offbeat and dark humor.

The last book om the William Gay Archive, released by Dzanc Books. The book clus a preface by JM Whe, and nclus wh a qutn and answer wh the team of edors that worked on the by his signature skill and bare-knuckled sight, this llectn is a mt-read for William Gay vote and fans of Southern short fictn. William Gay was a proment wrer of var novels wh a foc on Southern lerature.

William Gay was born 1941 Hohenwald, Tennsee. Gay worked a variety of jobs over the years although not too much is known about his history outsi of his ary work. Gay wrote a number of books as well as a few llectns of short stori.

Gay died of a prumed heart attack at the age of 70 2012. William Gay’s first novel was the 1999 book the Long Home. One of the later novels om Gay is the 2006 novel Twilight.

The book is nsired to be among the most personal works that Gay has wrten.