The Lost Country by William Gay (English) Paperback Book

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Ten years after it was acquired, and long thought lost, the novel which the late William Gay often talked about before his death finally emerges.

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In the tradition of William Gay's critically acclaimed novels Twilight and The Long Home, The Lost Country takes readers back to the south of the 1950s, a landscape populated with a colorful cast of scoundrels, accidental heroes, and ne'er-do-wells. William Gay's picaresque The Lost Country follows four people on the road: a young sailor hitchhiking to Tennessee from the West Coast, a one-armed con-man, a kid dodging the law, and an enigmatic young woman who has fled her sordid and abusive home life. Everybody's looking for something - redemption, revenge, a moment of grace - and their separate paths will eventually intersect in the town of Ackerman's Field, where these four disparate story lines will be inextricably drawn together. Another powerfully unsettling novel by the master of the Southern gothic, The Lost Country confirms William Gay's reputation as one of the most talented and prolific authors writing today - in the South and beyond. From the Author: I wanted to write a picaresque road novel with several disparate characters whose fates are ultimately intertwined when their separate stories draw together in my usual setting of Ackerman's Field. I was interested in the idea that places, whether physical or metaphorical, are hard to return to once you've left them.

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Author Biography

William Gay lived in Hohenwald, Tennessee. His work has appeared in the Georgia Review, the Oxford Review, and The Best American Mystery Stories 2001. He is the author of the novels The Long Home, Provinces of Night and Twilight, described by George Pelecanos as 'a mythical dark-woods adventure, both horrific and comedic, with an astonishing language of its own'. William Gay died in 2012.

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Ten years after it was acquired, and long thought lost, the novel which the late William Gay often talked about before his death finally emerges.

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Ten years after it was acquired, and long thought lost, the novel which the late William Gay often talked about before his death finally emerges. In the tradition of William Gay's critically acclaimed novels Twilight and The Long Home, The Lost Country takes readers back to the south of the 1950s, a landscape populated with a colorful cast of scoundrels, accidental heroes, and ne'er-do-wells. William Gay's picaresque The Lost Country follows four people on the road: a young sailor hitchhiking to Tennessee from the West Coast, a one-armed con-man, a kid dodging the law, and an enigmatic young woman who has fled her sordid and abusive home life. Everybody's looking for something - redemption, revenge, a moment of grace - and their separate paths will eventually intersect in the town of Ackerman's Field, where these four disparate story lines will be inextricably drawn together. Another powerfully unsettling novel by the master of the Southern gothic, The Lost Country confirms William Gay's reputation as one of the most talented and prolific authors writing today - in the South and beyond. From the Author: I wanted to write a picaresque road novel with several disparate characters whose fates are ultimately intertwined when their separate stories draw together in my usual setting of Ackerman's Field. I was interested in the idea that places, whether physical or metaphorical, are hard to return to once you've left them.

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Ten years after it was acquired, and long thought lost, the novel which the late William Gay often talked about before his death finally emerges.

Details ISBN057124596X Author William Gay Publisher Faber & Faber Year 2018 ISBN-10 057124596X ISBN-13 9780571245963 Format Paperback Media Book Pages 384 Publication Date 2018-07-19 Imprint Faber & Faber Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Language English UK Release Date 2018-07-19 AU Release Date 2018-07-19 Edition Description Main Audience General NZ Release Date 2018-08-28 We've got this

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