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Overview

William Gay firmly 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 critically acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night. Like Faulkner's Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy's American West, Gay's Tennessee is redolent of broken, colorful souls hard at work charting the pathos of their interior lives.

His debut collection, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, brings together what Gay's dedicated readers are eager for and what new readers will find the perfect introduction to his world: thirteen stories that are mined from this same fertile soil teeming with the grizzled, everyday folk that Gay is famous for bringing to life. In these pages readers meet old man Meecham, who escapes from his new 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, is faced with an inescapable end when he abandons her; Finis and Doneita Beasley, whose forty-year marriage is broken up by a dead dog; Bobby Pettijohn, who is awakened in the middle of the night by the noise and lights of a search party looking for clues after a body is discovered in his backwoods.

William Gay expertly sets these conflicted people who make bad choices in life and love against lush back-country scenery, and somehow manages to defy moral logic as we grow to love his characters for the weight of their human errors. Diverse as these tales are, what connects them is the powerful voice of a born storyteller.

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The New York Times Book Review
Gay is richly gifted: a seemingly effortless storyteller, a writer of prose that's fiercely wrought, pungent in detail, yet poetic in the most welcome sense.
Publishers Weekly
In this collection of 13 short stories, Southern writer Gay (Provinces of Night; The Long Home) confirms his place in the Southern fiction pantheon. Set in rural Tennessee, the stories pulsate with the inevitability of emotional pain, sometimes charged with fear, other times with limitless rage. Gay's characters are perpetually frustrated with the world's awkwardness and obstinacy, lashing out in bizarre ways. After shooting his wife's yapping dog and then facing divorce proceedings, the protagonist of "Sugarbaby" flees responsibility and commits suicide rather than face the music. About to leave town with a young woman who exudes "sullen eroticism," the downwardly mobile television salesman whose desperation animates "The Man Who Knew Dylan" deserts her at a bus stop, smelling too much trouble to handle. In the more ironic stories, natural forces stifle rebellion. The title tale peaks when an old man pushed out of his home by his son tries unsuccessfully to burn out the house's new occupants, nearly killing himself. Although the stories maintain an alluringly simple, spare affect, they are complex in their psychological underpinnings and their poetically described settings range from deep woods to shady towns to the half-junkyard, half-wilderness hell of the area known as "the Harrikin," to which several of Gay's characters flee when they reach the end of their tether. The very names establish authenticity: Finis Beasley, Billy Crosswaithe, Bonedaddy, Quincy Nell. Despite occasional rambling sentences revealing the influence of Cormac McCarthy or the odd false-ringing line of twangy dialogue, this collection is a fine showcase for Gay's imaginative talent. (Oct.)
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Library Journal
Gay (Provinces of Night; The Long Home) offers a collection of stories whose characters arrive at a crossroads and usually choose the wrong path, be it violence, arson, or suicide. In the title story, an elderly man escapes his retirement home and uses extreme measures to rid his house of the family who is renting it. "The Paperhanger" involves a Pakistani doctor's wife, her difficulties with the titular paperhanger, and a missing child. In "Closure" and "Roadkill on the Life's Highway," a quest for a hidden stash of money gives the protagonist the means to come to terms with his estranged wife. Gay often fails to connect characters with the reader, so it's hard to understand why they make their violent, irrational decisions. But in the stronger stories the truth of the characters comes through. For larger public libraries and collections of Southern fiction. Christine DeZelar-Tiedman, Univ. of Minnesota Lib., Minneapolis Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780743242929
  • Publisher: Free Press
  • Publication date: 9/23/2003
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 338,345
  • Product dimensions: 0.73 (w) x 5.50 (h) x 8.50 (d)

Table of Contents

I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down 1
A Death in the Woods 31
Bonedaddy, Quincy Nell, and the Fifteen Thousand BTU Electric Chair 50
The Paperhanger 72
The Man Who Knew Dylan 93
Those Deep Elm Brown's Ferry Blues 123
Crossroads Blues 148
Closure and Roadkill on the Life's Highway 168
Sugarbaby 192
Standing by Peaceful Waters 216
Good 'Til Now 240
The Lightpainter 263
My Hand Is Just Fine Where It Is 290

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  • Posted April 3, 2012

    Engrossing-Please read.

    This set of short stories should become a classic.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 17, 2002

    I Love to See This Book Come Up/

    gay is a master of the short form. these tales will leave you with your mouth hanging open. stellar & emotional.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 17, 2002

    Where did this guy come from?

    It's amazing to me that I've never heard of William Gay. Most of these stories left me literaly shaking. Beautiful and completely amazing. I've found my new favorite writter.

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