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Title: Provinces of Night : A Novel by William Gay ISBN: 0-385-49928-0 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Journey through Human Nature
Comment: "Provinces of Night" takes its name from a line in a book by Cormac McCarthy and this is likely no coincidence as William Gay resembles McCarthy stylistically, though possibly being a bit more wordy along the way. His characters here run the line of shades of gray, not merely presenting good and evil, and offer some true glimpses of human nature along the way.
The story is that of the Bloodworths, from father E.F., who left his family years ago and has now returned, through his wandering and variously afflicted boys, to his book-reading grandson, Fleming. As an abandoned young man who has been dealt life's toughest cards, it is reaffirming to see him withstand so much and still retain the will to make something good of his life.
Full of humor and insight, this is a book worth reading slowly and savoring. You'll feel like you're there as Gay paints the scenes.
Gay has been compared to Faulkner and this is not a great stretch. Though he tries too hard to make a metaphor work sometimes, it doesn't detract from the overall brilliance of this book - well worthy of all its praise!
Rating: 4
Summary: Evocative Storyteller
Comment: Having discovered William Gay's "The Long Home," and read his short stories, I enjoyed "The Provinces of Night" for its vivid portraiture of blood ties of real earthy people of a Tennessee backcountry trapped in a time and a place in the 1950s. Gay is a great scene-setter, threading his story with honest dialogue and episodes that move the story of crumbling loyalties and the age-old strife of the South to conclusion. His weaving of dialogue into the text without quotation marks is slightly burdensome but it worked for Charles Frazier in "Cold Mountain" and for Gay's obvious literary idol, Cormac McCarthy. Quite obviously Gay is a student of Faulkner and McCarthy and is not afraid of literary devices and metaphors too much missing in today's action-sped novels. He is truly a Southern storyteller with the ability to evoke the real world of Tennesseans by blending the past with the present. I like his sense of the natural world, describing with a rich palette.---Jesse Earle Bowden, author of "Look and Tremble: A Novel of West Florida."
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Best Books I Have Read!!
Comment: Nearly perfect. Great story, beautiful prose, humor, sadness, thought provoking, page turning. All of that, and one sentence on page 155 I could make absolutely no sense out of.
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Title: The Long Home by William Gay ISBN: 1878448056 Publisher: MacMurray & Beck Communication Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down : Collected Stories by William Gay ISBN: B000094P58 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Hell at the Breech : A Novel by Tom Franklin ISBN: 0688167411 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Poachers : Stories by Tom Franklin ISBN: 0688177719 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Rabbit Factory: A Novel by Larry Brown ISBN: 0743245237 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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