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…
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- THE LOST COUNTRY BY WILLIAM GAY
- WILLIAM GAY ARCHIVE
- THE LOST COUNTRY, A POSTHUMO NOVEL BY WILLIAM GAY, REVIEWED BY MICHAEL A. FERRO
- THE LOST COUNTRY BY WILLIAM GAY
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. * lost country william gay *
The Lost Country was published posthumoly, ten years after thor William Gay’s ath. Fans of Gay’s work speculate when the text was posed, batg whether fell toward the begng or end of his reer.
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.
WILLIAM GAY ARCHIVE
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Midway through the novel, Gay wr that “realy only touched Edgewater plac of transiency, jails and b statns, the highway.
THE LOST COUNTRY, A POSTHUMO NOVEL BY WILLIAM GAY, REVIEWED BY MICHAEL A. FERRO
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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.
THE LOST COUNTRY BY WILLIAM GAY
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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. ”—The Tim“Gay’s style was fully formed: sister and lovely, dark and atmospheric, blood-soaked and word-dnk.
”—Wall Street Journal“The pleasure that Gay, a self-ted Vietnam veteran, tak om language is equently a thg of bety... ”—The Lerary Review“Gay’s great abili character buildg, richns of language and storytellg are on full display this posthumo novel.
”—Charl Frazier, thor of Vara “Gay's midcentury Tennsee is a realm of bad weather and small-town lowlif, vagrancy laws, and bootleg liquor; every man is a dnk, alternately listls and ltful and vlent; every woman is fed by the e she mak (or once ma, or will make) of her body. Infili, prison breaks, murro revenge, biblil language, and a ep kship between the land and s habants—Gay's novel is full-on Southern gothic.
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”—Kirk Reviews“There is so much to be awed by Gay’s new novel and only mak miss him all the more, though is a ls-than-subtle remr of how lucky we are to have had him share his talent wh while he was here. William Gay uld wre a grocery list and make sg and burn off the pag equal measure, and The Lost Country is yet another ttament to his unniable virtuosy wh the wrten word.