The Long Home - Paperback

The Long Home - Paperback

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by William Gay (Author)

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 boy can imagine - until he learns of it first-hand. Gay's remarkable debut novel, The Long Home, is also the story of Amber Rose, a beautiful young woman forced to live beneath that evil who recognizes even as a child that Nathan is her first and last chance at 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 to his own weathered guilt by failing to do anything about it.

Set in rural Tennessee in the 1940s, The Long Home will bring to mind once again the greatest Southern novelists and will haunt the reader with its sense of solitude, longing, and the deliverance that is always just out of reach.

Author Biography

Born in Tennessee in 1941, William Gay was a construction worker who didn't begin publishing until well into his fifties. His works include, "The Long Home, Provinces of Night, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, Wittgenstein's Lolita," and "Twilight." His work has been adapted for the screen twice, "That Evening Sun" (2009) and "Bloodworth" (2010). Most recently, his debut novel has been optioned for film. He died in 2012.

Number of Pages: 254
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: September 15, 2015
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