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“THE LOST COUNTRY,” BY WILLIAM GAY

A young drifter odysseys through the gothic menagerie that is ral Tennsee Gay’s (Ltle Sister Death, 2015, etc.) posthumoly published novel. * the lost country by william gay *

The Lost Country was published posthumoly, ten years after thor William Gay’s ath.

THE LOST COUNTRY, A POSTHUMO NOVEL BY WILLIAM GAY, REVIEWED BY MICHAEL A. FERRO

One nnot help but wonr what the world of southern gothic lerature might be like had William Gay published earlier life. Much like Flkner, McCarthy, and O’Connor, Gay was a master of the bleak and the betiful, able to break your heart one sentence and cut out and toss on a… * the lost country by william gay *

Fans of Gay’s work speculate when the text was posed, batg whether fell toward the begng or end of his reer.

THE LOST COUNTRY — WILLIAM GAY

* the lost country by william gay *

Regardls of Gay’s origal tentns, the novel’s lack of a plete arc ftly explor the actured nature of the Amerin dream the south. Gay suggts that there is no space for nnectn wh this ght landspe – that survival and livg are distct om one another, and the latter nnot be accsed by lower-class southerners like Edgewater. Midway through the novel, Gay wr that “realy only touched Edgewater plac of transiency, jails and b statns, the highway.

While we nnot be certa what Gay’s tentns were for the novel when he first drafted , the rult is a hntg and visceral renrg of the Amerin south.

William Gay.

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The term most monly ed to scribe William Gay’s novels is “southern gothic, ” which I suppose fs his latt – and last – book well. Gay unfortunately passed before The Lost Country’s release, although he had wrten the bulk of the novel durg the seventi, long before his untimely passg 2012.

Gay had acknowledged to iends that Edgewater was a semi-tobgraphil character, albe slightly exaggerated for entertament purpos.

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