The Lost Country: 9781945814525: Gay, William: Books

Contents:

• WILLIAM GAY
• POEMS OF WILLIAM GAY LEATHER BOUND – JANUARY 1, 1910
• WILLIAM GAY(I)
• WILLIAM GAY(1941-2012)
• WILLIAM A. GAY

WILLIAM GAY

William Gay: books, bgraphy, latt update. I believe was William Gay's first novel (he was rather a late-bloomer as a wrer). Reviewed the Uned Stat on November 19, 2022I did enjoy readg this and first took the siari to Cormac McCarthy as a honorg of one of Gay’s spiratns (style was very siar to Sutree.

POEMS OF WILLIAM GAY LEATHER BOUND – JANUARY 1, 1910

Gay's wrg is the polar oppose to McCarthy's sparse, mimalist prose. Instead, Gay pats a rich table full of pungent, melod scriptns. William Gay lived my small unty TN and I never knew.

Usg this technique Gay is a ltle hard to follow at first, but once you get half-way through the book you know each character as if they were your own fay or neighbor.

I hope Gay gets the cred and notoriety he serv! Gay is a Southern wrer. Like Flkner, Gay also has a profound unrstandg of the human heart and the emotns that rm actn.

WILLIAM GAY(I)

I n look forward now to disverg more of William Gay’s work.

Reviewed the Uned Kgdom on April 19, 2012Nothg I wre uld do jtice to William Gay's works. If you buy jt one last book your life, make that last book any one of William Gay's giant novels.

Review "Gay’s great abili character buildg, richns of language and storytellg are on full display this posthumo novel. " --Charl Frazier, Natnal Book Award-wng thor of Vara "The pleasure that Gay, a self-ted Vietnam veteran, tak om language is equently a thg of, an stctive origal, had the spark of natural geni.

WILLIAM GAY(1941-2012)

" --The Tim "Gay’s style was fully formed: sister and lovely, dark and atmospheric, blood-soaked and word-dnk. " --Garn & Gun "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.

" --Heavy Feather Review "William Gay is a flat-out monster.

" --The Lerary Review "That Gay was a master storyteller is not news. " --Var Small Flam "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 and will light fans of the genre.

WILLIAM A. GAY

"--Kirk Reviews "William Gay's The Lost Country lands like a shimmerg gift om the beyond. For those of who cherish and honor Gay's tremendo talent, his bold method of seeg the waste and wonr we are, this posthumo novel is a remr of what we miss: the language pched toward the sublime, his men and women grapplg for remptn a world that has damned them, his unrstandg of grace the prence of human badns. When Gay died too soon, we lost much, but The Lost Country giv a piece of him back to .

" -- William Giraldi, thor of Hold the Dark "Like so many fans of William Gay's work I've been wag to read this seemgly mythil work, The Lost Country, for a que some time. Gay's elegiac prose sgs once aga as he breath life to his characters and m his patch of soil wh the skill of the old masters. " --The Next Bt Book Club About the Author Born Tennsee 1939, William Gay began wrg at fifteen and wrote his first novel at twenty-five, but didn’t beg publishg until well to his fifti.

William Gay was a brilliant master of language, characters, place, dialect and dialogue, and story. Through the iendly terventn of a lol librarian Hohenwald, Tennsee, I spent an entire afternoon William Gay’s home, listeng to his stori of beg on the set when this book was ma to a not-nearly-as-good movie Bloodworth wh Kris Kristofferson. I heard his stori about the selectn of Hal Holbrook to play a character Gay created Hate to See That Eveng Sun Go Down.

Gay was tly a self-tght man. But Gay had a distct and wonrful lerary voice all his own. Reviewed the Uned Stat on Augt 29, 2014A wild ri om begng to end wh thor William Gay, a rpenter turned thor somewhere around the age of 50.

Earlier the novel, the summer nights, teenagers fallg love watch a swarm of firefli gather over a river and Gay treats to this hntg criptn: "There was somethg oddly rtful about the firefli. "Gay's wrg is jt load wh stuff like this... Impatiently wag for new on by him, I chanced on the reviews and through them disvered William Gay (as a siar style.

Like most of Gay’s novels, "Fugiv of the Heart" tak place mid-20th century, ral Tennsee. The dark mood, the them, the lyricism is classic William Gay storytellg. I loved the first half the way I've loved Gay's prev books (he's my favore thor).

Reviewed the Uned Stat on January 1, 2023I had not read anythg by William Gay, so this novel was a gratifyg disvery. The parisons wh William Flkner are valid, not only bee Gay is brgg to life a patch of southern land and people, but bee he wr wh a prose style that is both mcular and lyril, and he is full of sights to universal human psychology, s longg and tratns, and he has a keen eye for the explible turngs of human fate. William Gay was also spired by Huck and this novel is his tribute, but no pale imatn.

While Twa's novel pivoted around Huck wrtlg wh his nscience, Gay's boy character, Yat, has ls of a nscience and n be downright wicked, but he do share Huck's nocence at not prehendg the workgs of the adult world, cludg s racism. William Gay's nvoluted and often poetic prose is great fun to follow.

Though there are elements that feel rivative of The Long Home, like the young man pg for the world-weary girl who is trapped a hoe of ill-repute, Gay's tramark poetry and humor are full display.

But, Gay's homage to Huckleberry Fn is a worthy addn to his non. Reviewed the Uned Stat on July 11, 2021In the foreword by Sonny Brewer, he mentns a piece that William Gay wrote, published his Don’t Qu Your Day Job published by Brewer, his thoughts on beg a wrer:’I had no words for the way the snow looked driftg down the streetlights and I wanted those words.

’This is the send book by Gay that I’ve read, the first beg The Lost Country which was published July, 2018, six years after his ath. Gay’s pictns of the people that hab the plac, their mishaps and their flts, are imbued wh a gentle humour, but there is also a sense of gratu and love, as though this were wrten as an o to the love he’d found the plac, them of love and iendship, along wh adversy, rptn, and poverty, Fugiv of the Heart also shar a sense of reverence for this one chance we are given to appreciate and embrace this adventure we ll thanks for the ARC provid by Livgston Prs at the Universy of Wt Alabama. Reviewed the Uned Stat on Augt 2, 2021Like most of Gay’s novels, "Fugiv of the Heart" tak place mid-20th century, ral Tennsee.

Books By William Gay. Ltle Sister Death is the stunng 'lost' horror novel of the late 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.