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In The Long Home, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to an evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine - until that is, he experiences it for himself. It is also the story of Amber Rose, a beautiful young woman forced to live with that evil, who recognises that Nathan represents her only chance of escape. And it is the story of William Tell Oliver, a solitary old man who watches the growing evil from the dark woods and adds his own weathered guilt by failing to act at the most crucial of moments. Set in rural Tennessee in the 1940s, The Long Home haunts the reader with its sense of solitude, longing, and the deliverance that is always just out of reach, and brings to mind the greatest writers of the American South - Flannery O'Connor, Tennessee Williams, Cormac McCarthy.
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'Gay is a writer of remarkable talent... The Long Home promises to be one of the most discussed Southern debuts since Brown's Facing the Music in 1988.' The New York Times Book Review 'Just when it seemed that the superb writers of the US south could no longer surprise... along comes this astonishing, dark, offbeat novel possessing equal measures of weirdness and beauty... Gay's vivid prose and dramatic instinct create lasting images and human moments of genius. This is a far bigger book than many novels twice its size, and it deserves its place in a rich tradition.' Irish Times
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William Gay lives in Hohenwald, Tennessee. His work has appeared in the Georgia Review, the Oxford Review, and The Best American Mystery Stories 2001. He is the author of the novels The Long Home, Provinces of Night and Twilight, described by George Pelecanos as 'a mythical dark-woods adventure, both horrific and comedic, with an astonishing language of its own'.
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0571210902
- ISBN 13 9780571210909
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