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The Long Home
Written by William Gay
Narrated by Pete Bradbury
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William Gay's work has appeared in Harper's, The Georgia Review, and G.Q. Like Larry Brown, Gay creates deeply layered tales that plumb the depths of the human heart. The Long Home focuses on a volatile triangle of deception, love, and guilt. As Nathan Winer grows up in a rural Tennessee community, his life, and those closest to him, are touched by the evil that dwells in one ruthless and powerful man.
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William Gay
William Gay is the author of the novel The Long Home. His short stories have appeared in Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, GQ, and New Stories from the South 1999 and 2000. He was awarded the 1999 William Peden Award and the 2000 James A. Michener Memorial Priz
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Set in rural Tennessee in the 1940s, there’s a timelessness to William Gay’s writing in The Long Home. Gay writes about nature, good, and evil. Dallas Hardin is a bootlegger, thief, and murderer who represents evil. No one is pure in the story. William Tell Oliver comes close, an old man now who wishes he’d rid the earth of Hardin long ago. Nathan Winer is a young man tethered to Hardin by something that he may never comprehend. Gay toggles between unadorned narrative and mystical lyricism, which comes when he’s describing nature. The earth is “coppercolored with fallen needles.” “Against the purple heavens the pinewoods turned oblique and foreign, took on the texture of flocked velvet.” There are no easy lives in The Long Home. “The world was locked doors, keep-out signs, guard dogs.” Violence is rampant, “the fierce, sudden violence of summer storms.”Gay mixes them all with mastery – nature, violence, human nature, evil and fortitude.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In the tradition of Faulkner, O'Connor and other writers in the southern gothic pantheon, William Gay writes with fierce precision about our darker angels, and the evils that besiege us. Gay's voice grabs. AFter one paragraph you know you are in the hands of an assured, confident writer. In addition to a formidable vocabulary (stygian?) he reinvents language, creates compounds that make poetic sense : hearthammer, foldup, halfbent. (Later, more dashes appear to legitimize his creations, which is a shame, but what can you do?) From Tennessee, he writes about the ornery, the estranged, and the disenfranchised, a group he understands, perhaps because he knows of what they speak. If you're a fan of kittens, rainbows and bloodless mysteries, steer clear. If you like unflinching looks into the lives of those battling evil with little more than a lawnchair and prayer, discover William Gay. Why he isn't as widely read as Cormac McCarthy is beyond me.
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