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A World Almost Rotten: The Fiction Of William Gay

 

The great Southern novelist and story writer William Queer died at his place in Hohenwald, Tennessee, on February 23rd of this year, at the age of An intensely secret man who valued his reclusion and had no interest in the sometimes shameless self-promotion required by authors, Gay spoke at great length and on numerous occasions with William Giraldi in in preparation for Giraldi&#;s essay &#;A World Almost Rotten: The Fiction of William Gay,&#; the only in-depth critical analysis of Gay&#;s novels and stories. We give Giraldi&#;s essay for the legion of Gay&#;s heartbroken fans, and for those lucky ones who are about to discover for the first time this important voice in American fiction.

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In William Gay’s scorched world Flannery O’Connor is present less like a looming ghoul than an elderly aunt who lives in his house and will not die. And yet despite O’Connor’s mighty presence (and the unavoidable presence of the Yahweh of Southern literature, the god from whom no male writer in the South can ever wish to flee) Gay’s operate is wholly its retain, pulsing with both tradition and novelty. His books have been crafted from
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The Wunderkammer of William Gay’s The Lost Country

“Good and evill we know in the field of this World grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involv&#;d and interwoven with the knowledge of evill, and in so many cunning resemblances hardly to be discern&#;d, that those confused seeds which were impos&#;d on Psyche as an incessant labour to cull out, and sort asunder, were not more intermixt. It was from out the rinde of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evill as two twins cleaving together leapt forth into the World.”

-John Milton, Areopagitica 

Posthumous. The word has always seemed laudatory to me. I think William Gay would have preferred Post-Mortem. I think he would hold liked the cadaverous self-effacement of the phrase, its mischievousness.

From talking with those who knew this penner well, especially his partner and editor at MacAdam/Cage, Sonny Brewer, I amass that William Gay was a humble man, a bit shy but with a vivid wit, and a playful streak to go along with it. I think his facetiousness is important to perceive in this latest guide. He clearly found a lot of joy in his work, and if you take him too seriously, a

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Long Home ()
  2. Provinces of Night ()
  3. Twilight ()
  4. Little Sister Death ()
  5. Stoneburner ()
  6. The Missing Country ()
  7. Fugitives of the Heart ()

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. I Detest to See That Evening Sun Go Down ()
  2. Wittgenstein&#;s Lolita and The Iceman ()
  3. The Streets of Paris ()

Poetry Books In Publication Order

  1. Time Done Been Won&#;t Be No More ()
  2. The Complete Poetical Works of William Gay ()
  3. Sonnets and Other Verses ()
  4. Christ on Olympus, and Other Poems ()

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William Gay Books Overview

The Long Home

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 male child can imagine until he learns of it first hand. Gay&#;s remarkable debut novel, , is also the story of Amber Rose, a beautiful juvenile woman forced to dwell beneath that evil, who recognizes even as a child that Nathan is her first and last chance at escape. And it is the sto

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Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • Long Home

    In a literary voice that is both imaginative 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

  • Provinces of Night

    It’s , and E.F. Bloodworth is finally coming home to Ackerman’s Field, Tennessee. Itinerant banjo picker and changeable 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

  • I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down

    William Gay firmly established himself as "the big modern 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

  • The Alumni Grill: Anthology of Southern Writers

    As the popular 'Blue Moon Café' series moves into its third volume, 'The Alumni Grill' showcases award-winning veterans fro

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