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This title in other formats:I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Storiesby William Gay
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review:"Gay confirms his place in the Southern fiction pantheon....[A] fine showcase for Gay's imaginative talent." Publishers Weekly Review:"[G]ut-wrenching tales, stories told from half-finished verandas about wholehearted attempts to bandage the wounds of the human spirit with cheap wallpaper." John Green, Booklist (Starred Review) Review:"Gay is richly gifted: a seemingly effortless storyteller, a writer of prose that's fiercely wrought....[These stories] can be gothic, funny, violent, romantic and stark, yet they're always compassionate." Daniel Woodrell, The New York Times Book Review Review:"Gay shows us with sensitivity and honesty that deep inside those kudzu-covered hills are complex lives that hang by the thinnest of fates." Stephen J. Lyons, USA Today Review:"Gay often fails to connect characters with the reader....But in the stronger stories the truth of the characters comes through." Library Journal Review:"Gay's characters come right up and bite you....Gay's well-chosen words propel the reader straight through his 13 stories..." Diane Hartman, The Denver Post Synopsis:From the critically acclaimed author of Provinces of Night and The Long Home comes a much-anticipated story collection — including the original version of the novella that started it all. In these diverse, piebald Southern stories, Gay does for his verdant corner of Tennessee, what William Faulkner did for Mississippi. Synopsis: 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. About the AuthorWilliam Gay is the author of the novels Provinces of Night and The Long Home. His short stories have appeared in Harper's, The Georgia Review, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Oxford American, and New Stories from the South, 1999-2001. The winner of the 1999 William Peden Award, the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize, and the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim fellowship, he lives in Hohenwald, Tennessee. Table of ContentsContents
A Death in the Woods Bonedaddy, Quincy Nell, and the Fifteen Thousand BTU Electric Chair The Paperhanger The Man Who Knew Dylan Those Deep Elm Brown's Ferry Blues Crossroads Blues Closure and Roadkill on the Life's Highway Sugarbaby Standing by Peaceful Waters Good 'Til Now The Lightpainter My Hand Is Just Fine Where It Is
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