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 boy can imagine -- until he learns of it first-hand.
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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 boy can imagine -- until he learns of it first-hand.
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As new book in a as new dust jacket. Signed by the author. 257 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Laurie Dolphin. Signed by Gay on the title page. His 1st book. The story of three people who who are fighting evil in Tennessee. As new book in an as new dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
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Truly enjoyed this writing!!It was the first time I have ever read this author's writings...
Booksnake
Apr 2, 2009
Work of a Genius
"The Long Home" is set in a fictional town in 1940s Tennessee. Like the other two published novels from William Gay, the point-of-view character is a young guy who is in the process of becoming a man. Although he's in his mid-teens, he's been thrown into maturity beyond his years, and is the breadwinner of the household he shares with his embittered mother. Through his struggles just to earn an honest living, he finds himself dealing with the personification of evil and in the process, stumbling onto clues about the long-ago disappearance of his father.
William Gay writes scenes like Impressionists painted on canvass. Small bits of sensory cues dot his every sentence. Each small pattern is a miniature work of art in and of itself. Together, they put you in the same smokey rooms and wide places in dusty roads among the hard workers and drinkers, steel-hearted villains and a parade of clever natives who live among the hills and hollows of a rural world that had not yet been homogenized into the strip-center chain-store sameness that drones through the South and all of America nowadays.
Wiliam Gay tells a good story. The plot alone is worth the time to read this book. But The Long Home" is so much more than a story.
When I read, I keep a yellow highlighter nearby so I can mark passages that touch me in such ways that I'd like to re-read them when I have time. When I read the work of William Gay, I often wind up with more yellow on the pages than white. He's that good. Hardly a passage go by without coming onto a line that makes me say to myself, "I should print that off, put it on a frame and hang it on my wall."
See for yourself. And check out "Provinces of Night" (my favorite of Gay's work so far) and "Twilight" (his most recent novel). And stay tuned for his new book -- "The Lost Country." It is scheduled for release in late May of 2009, but I'm not sure if it will make that date. I sure hope so.
