After William Gay’s passg 2012 a mounta of unpublished work was disvered and Team Gay—a group of artists, thors, profsors, scholars, basilly uber fans— was formed. I me to the picture while wrg my master this 2016 and I reached out to the archive for more -pth rmatn on Gay’s wrg. After I…
Contents:
- STORI OM THE ATTIC, PREVLY UNPUBLISHED WORK BY WILLIAM GAY, REVIEWED BY DAWN MAJOR
- REVIEW: 'STORI FROM THE ATTIC' IS A SPLENDID, FAL LLECTN BY WILLIAM GAY
- “STORI OM THE ATTIC” BY WILLIAM GAY
- STORI FROM THE ATTIC BY WILLIAM GAY EBOOK
STORI OM THE ATTIC, PREVLY UNPUBLISHED WORK BY WILLIAM GAY, REVIEWED BY DAWN MAJOR
* william gay stories from the attic *
After William Gay’s passg 2012 a mounta of unpublished work was disvered and Team Gay—a group of artists, thors, profsors, scholars, basilly uber fans— was formed. I me to the picture while wrg my master this 2016 and I reached out to the archive for more -pth rmatn on Gay’s wrg. After I graduated, I uldn’t let go of William Gay, and I beme part of Team Gay.
The team has published four novels and now this fal llectn, Stori om the Attic—an apt tle as some of his works were actually disvered an attic where Gay was livg while raisg his fay. Publishg Gay’s work has been challengg sce was wrten Gay’s idsyncratic scrawlg longhand and had to be transcribed.
REVIEW: 'STORI FROM THE ATTIC' IS A SPLENDID, FAL LLECTN BY WILLIAM GAY
Hohenwald, Tennsee, native William Gay, who published his first novel when he was his late 50s, won acclaim for poetic prose and unfettable characters who seem entirely te to the grty Southern settg of his fictn. * william gay stories from the attic *
Dzanc Books has e forward to publish Stori om the Attic; Dzanc was there at the very begng when they published Gay’s first posthumo novel, Ltle Sister Death and then his major work The Lost Country. The 348-page llectn nsists of short stori, memoirs, and a few agments om work progrs when he died, and is round out wh a roundtable discsn wh the members om Team Gay. This is a mon subplot Gay’s novels.
Gay’s work tends to be part tobgraphil and certaly he faced siar problems matag steady work. For Gay who grew up as poor as his male protagonists ’s easy to image the sense of wantg his characters exhib.
” There’s always a sense Gay’s work of reachg for somethg accsible. And of urse, that pulsn Gay’s characters is analogo wh Gay’s pulsn to wre, his sire to get published also seemgly unreachable, as he didn’t start gettg published or ga notoriety until his late fifti after a lifetime of wrg.
“STORI OM THE ATTIC” BY WILLIAM GAY
We will regnize Gay’s favore settgs and some of his go-to characters om prev novels and short stori. Gay often returned to a favore character, like Sheriff Bellwether and Deputy Garrison, and the bootlegger, Itchy Mama. But Gay was also fond of specific nam and sometim ed the same name for a character even though they were not the same character across his non.
In terms of settg, the stori and agments take place faiar lotns such as the town of Ackerman’s Field, the Harrik, Gay’s or hnted fort, the famo honkytonk, Gobl’s Knob, poolhalls, beer jots, and bootlegger’s hom, drive- theatr, sentially Gay’s tried and te ral landspe of Middle Tennsee. Gay begs wh the settg and works his characters around place.
The ver image on Stori om the Attic of a dilapidated barn is one of many patgs Gay pated durg his lifetime. Gay wanted to e his artwork on his vers, but typilly publishers ed their own signers. Team Gay largely fulfilled Gay’s wish and has sce ed his artwork on three novels and this llectn.
STORI FROM THE ATTIC BY WILLIAM GAY EBOOK
Nothg was more personal than settg for Gay and that is evinced by the attentn he paid to scribg the natural environment his characters habed and the imag found his art. Not only do we get a peek to Gay’s experimentatn wh varyg perspectiv but we also ga sight to the evolutn of his characters. And of urse, the agments are simply enjoyable to read and offer more of Gay’s betiful lyril prose as “The Trace, ” where Gay scrib the timelsns of the nighttime sky and the perseverance of nature:.
When Gay returned home after a lerary nference, the ntents of his trailer was ransacked and his novel set on the Natchez Trace was stolen. Sonny Brewer, when terviewed by Lemuria about the novel, The Lost Country, said Gay had a ntract to publish at McAdam Cage where Brewer was edor--chief, and when Brewer reviewed the handwrten drafts that were revered after Gay’s ath Brewer termed that the 250 pag of the mancript that had been found were not the plete novel.