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• 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.

WILLIAM GAY(I)

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.

WILLIAM GAY(1941-2012)

Like Flkner, Gay also has a profound unrstandg of the human heart and the emotns that rm actn. 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.

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" --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. " --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. "--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.