Based on a novel by William Gay ("That Eveng Sun"), "Provc of Night" is an unwieldy servg of Southern disfort that plays out like fourth-rate Flkner.
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PROVC OF NIGHT BY WILLIAM GAY
AMANDA FREEMAN, CROSSROADS AND MEMORY IN WILLIAM GAY'S PROVINCES OF NIGHT, South: A Scholarly Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2 (SPRING 2017), pp. 146-165 * william gay provinces of night *
When I read William Gay’s first novel, The Long Home, recently, I had the strong feelg that I had disvered the work of someone very special – and readg Provc of Night has nfirmed that for me. Gay wr wh a refully and languidly – the breadth and pth of his wrg mands full attentn om the rear, and the rewards are great above-mentned languid qualy of his work do not for a sgle moment dite any sort of lazs on his part – wrg this good n, of urse, e om the foundatn of a natural talent, but tak hard and diligent work to e up wh a fished product of this qualy. Gay’s characters are vivid and real, and they are built up slowly – the rear is required to get to know them, rather than havg them dumped off the page and to their lap.