I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down by William Gay

I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down by William Gay

William Gay established himself as the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, and his highly acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night. Like Faulkner's Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy's American West, Gay's Tennessee is redolent of broken souls. Mining that same fertile soil, his debut collection, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, brings together thirteen stories charting the pathos of interior lives. Among the colorful people readers meet are: old man Meecham, who escapes from his nursing home only to find his son has rented their homestead to white trash; Quincy Nell Qualls, who not only falls in love with the town lothario but, pregnant, faces an inescapable end when he abandons her; Finis and Doneita Beasley, whose forty-year marriage is broken up by a dead dog; and Bobby Pettijohn -- awakened in the night by a search party after a body is discovered in his back woods. William Gay expertly sets these conflicted characters against lush backcountry scenery and defies our moral logic as we grow to love them for the weight of their human errors.

The novels The Long Home and Regions of Night were written by William Gay. He won the William Peden Award and the James Michener Memorial Prize for his work, which published in Harper's and Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. In 2012, he passed away.

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ISBN 13	9780743242929
ISBN 10	0743242920
Title	I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down
Author	William Gay
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2003-10-01
Number of pages	303
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