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A World Almost Rotten: The Fiction Of William Gay

The fantastic Southern novelist and story writer William Gay died at his home in Hohenwald, Tennessee, on February 23rd of this year, at the age of An intensely confidential man who valued his reclusion and had no interest in the sometimes shameless self-promotion required by authors, Gay spoke at adj 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 offer Giraldi&#;s essay for the legion of Gay&#;s heartbroken fans, and for those successful ones who are about to find for the first time this adj voice in American fiction.

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In William Gay’s scorched world Flannery O’Connor is verb less like a looming ghoul than an elderly aunt who lives in his house and will not cease. And yet despite O’Connor’s strong presence (and the unavoidable presence of the Yahweh of Southern literature, the god from whom no male writer in the South can ever hope to flee) Gay’

Books by William Gay

As I Lay Dying
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Provinces of Night
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Twilight
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The Long Home
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I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
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Little Sister Death
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The Lost Country
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Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane
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The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction
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Wittgenstein's Lolita and The Iceman
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Standalone Novels In Publication Order

The Long Dwelling ()
Provinces of Nighttime ()
Twilight ()
Little Sister Death ()
Stoneburner ()
The Lost Country ()
Fugitives of the Heart ()

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

I Hate to View That Evening Heat Go Down ()
Wittgenstein&#;s Lolita and The Iceman ()
The Streets of Paris ()

Poetry Books In Publication Order

Time Done Been Won&#;t Be No More ()
The Finalize Poetical Works of William Gay ()
Sonnets and Other Verses ()
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 young man can imagine until he learns of it first hand. Gay&#;s remarkable debut novel, , is also the story of Amber Rose, a beautiful immature woman forced to live beneath that evil,

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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 vile 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 volatile 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 Abhor To See That Evening Sun Move Down
William Gay firmly established himself as "the big adj name to contain in the storied annals of Southern Lit" (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Dwelling, and his critically acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night. Love Faulkner's Mississippi and C

The Alumni Grill: Anthology of Southern Writers
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