William Gay

• Dec-1999
• / Literary
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In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the...

• Jan-2001
• / General Fiction
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It’s 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth is finally coming home to Ackerman’s Field, Tennessee. Itinerant banjo picker and volatile vagrant, he’s been gone ever since he gunned down a deputy thirty years before. Two of his sons won’t be home to greet h...

• Oct-2003
• / General Fiction
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William Gay firmly established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit" (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, and his critically acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night. Like Faulkner's Mississippi and C...

• Sep-2004
• / General Fiction
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As the popular 'Blue Moon Café' series moves into its third volume, 'The Alumni Grill' showcases award-winning veterans from the first two 'Blue Moon Café' collections, handpicked by Edited bys William Gay and Suzanne Kingsb...

• Jun-2006
• / Literary
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Gay maps out a landscape of love and death, exploring the terrain where a person's love of life interacts with their fear of the dark unknown. He portrays a character looking for love that reaches beyond death--with occasional morbid consequences....

• Nov-2006
• / Horror
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From the acclaimed author of 'Provinces of Night', this is a Southern Gothic novel about an undertaker who won’t let the dead rest. Suspecting that something is amiss with their father’s burial, teenager Kenneth Tyler and his sister Corri...

• Oct-2010
• / Literary
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William Gay's picaresque Lost Country follows four people on the road: a young sailor hitchhiking to Tennessee from the West Coast, a one-armed con-man, a kid dodging the law, and an enigmatic young woman who has fled her sordid and abusive home life...

• May-2013
• / Literary
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Time Done Been Won’t Be No More: Collected Prose by William Gay is a collection of short stories, essays, memoirs, and an interview. Gay is well known for his fiction but he is also widely published with his essays, mostly dealing with music, and h...

• May-2013
• / General Fiction
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Gay maps out a landscape of love and death, exploring the terrain where a person’s love of life interacts with their fear of the dark unknown. He portrays a character looking for love that reaches beyond death -- with occasional morbid consequences...

• Oct-2015
• / Horror
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David Binder is a young, successful writer living in Chicago and suffering from writer’s block. He stares at the blank page, and the blank page stares back harder. So when his agent suggests maybe a lighter sophomore novel, maybe something genre th...

• Jul-2017
• / Mystery
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Stoneburner is a hardboiled detective story written as only William Gay could do it. The story is set in the mid 1970s and includes a jaded private eye named Stoneburner, a redneck Vietnam vet named Thibodeaux, a beautiful young blonde named Cathy...

• Jun-2021
• / General Fiction
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In this, William Gay's last posthumous novel, we have his homage to Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Set in post-World War II Tennessee, in Gay's familiar Harrikan area. Marion Yates is a teenager recently orphaned when his notoriously licentious mother die...

• Jul-2022
• / General Fiction
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From a celebrated master of the Southern Gothic comes a last collection of hard-hitting short fiction, his final posthumous work Beloved for his novels Twilight, The Long Home, and The Lost Country and his groundbreaking collection I Hate to See That...

• Jul-2022
• / General Fiction
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<b>From a celebrated master of the Southern Gothic comes a last collection of hard-hitting short fiction, his final posthumous work</b><br>Beloved for his novels <i>Twilight, The Long Home,</i> and <i>The Lost Coun...