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- STORI OM THE ATTIC, PREVLY UNPUBLISHED WORK BY WILLIAM GAY, REVIEWED BY DAWN MAJOR
- TAG ARCHIV: WILLIAM GAY
STORI OM THE ATTIC, PREVLY UNPUBLISHED WORK BY WILLIAM GAY, REVIEWED BY DAWN MAJOR
After William Gay’s passg 2012 a mounta of unpublished work was disvered and Team Gay—a group of artists, thors, profsors, scholars, basilly uber fans— was formed. I me to the picture while wrg my master this 2016 and I reached out to the archive for more -pth rmatn on Gay’s wrg. After I… * william gay short stories *
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. ’s grandson, is pleased wh the old man’s homeg, but Flemg’s life is soon to reen down an unpredictable path hewn by the betiful Raven Lee the great Southern tradn of Flkner, Styron, and Cormac McCarthy, William Gay wields a prose as evotive and lh as the hnted and humid world picts. William Gay expertly sets the nflicted characters agast lh backuntry scenery and fi our moral logic as we grow to love them for the weight of their human 2009 film, That Eveng Sun, was based on the short story I Hate to See That Eveng Sun Go Down.
Gay maps out a landspe of love and ath, explorg the terra where a person's love of life teracts wh their fear of the dark unknown.
TAG ARCHIV: WILLIAM GAY
What follows is an adventure through the Harrik, an eerie backwoods filled wh tangled roads, sted machery, and eccentric squatters—old men, wch, and fai among them—who both shield and imperil Tyler as he ns for his poetic, hntg prose, William Gay rewr the l of the gothic fairytale while explorg the classic Southern them of good and evil.