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Title: The Long Home by William Gay ISBN: 1-878448-05-6 Publisher: MacMurray & Beck Communication Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dark, funny, unforgettable: Buy this book now. Today.
Comment: I read this book with an increasing sense of wonder and awe. William Gay has written a moving, heartbreaking novel with people I believe and believe in, with language both poetic and taut, with detail to die for, with humor and wisdom and heart and darkness and a sense of place you might read a thousand books and never find. Buy this book and wrap it in Mylar and stand it on the shelf with your Faulkner and your Cormac McCarthy, and then take it down and start reading it over again. We all keep hearing about the next new voice in American fiction. Well folks, William Gay is a whole varied chorus of voices, all singing in perfect harmony. The song is dark, god yes, but you can't stop listening.
Rating: 5
Summary: Literary Reading At It's Best!
Comment: The title of this review may seem pretentious, but, as an author, I rejoice in the literary art of story-telling at it's highest level. Mr. Gay, who I had the pleasure of meeting in Nashville at The Southern Festival of the Book, is a masterful story-teller. His characters are lively and real. The inner-workings of the mind and the tenacity of the southern male are reborn in this tale. Though some critics have said his work is Faulknerian in tone, Mr. Gay's prose is far more readable and, in my opinion, lyrical. His love for the area and the people about which he writes are reminiscent of Pat Conroy and his attachment of South Carolina's Low Country. Congratulations to William Gay for a job well done.
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb tapestry of Tennessee rural life half a century ago
Comment: The battle of good versus evil is woven through three-dimensional characters, young and elderly. Remorseless murderer Dallas Hardin worsens with age, stealing another's wife and trying to prostitute her daughter. Young Nathan Winer, whose father Hardin killed when the boy was very young, violently objects. Elderly William Tell Oliver knows secrets and knows exactly how to help Winer. The unhurried climax literally tightened my nerves until the most satisfying end. --Roy L. Fish, author of short stories and the suspense novel, ICEMAN.
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Title: Provinces of Night : A Novel by William Gay ISBN: 0385499280 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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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: 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: Father and Son: A Novel by Larry Brown ISBN: 0805053034 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Welding with Children : Stories by Tim Gautreaux ISBN: 0312267924 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 03 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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