false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173473924m/294733.jpg 294733 2 <P>William Gay established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit" (<I>Esquire</I>) with his debut novel, <I>The Long Home</I>, and his highly acclaimed follow-up, <I>Provinces of Night</I>. 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>I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down</I>, 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.<P>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.<P> 285987 2002 I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories total:131|5:54|4:56|3:15|2:4|1:2| 131 549 203 33 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 20:03:29 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 20:08:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 14 22:45:40 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 22:45:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 27 06:22:30 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 06:22:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 02 15:33:44 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 15:40:18 -0800 2008 many
The story about Quincy Nell and Bonedaddy and the air conditioner (sorry I don't have a copy and can't remember the whole name ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jun 12 19:22:40 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 19:23:28 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 10:11:59 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 20:28:49 -0700 2009 very few, writers who is so damn good that I will forgive him his trespasses in the area of improper punctuation (Hubert Selby, Jr. is the other writer who gets a free pass). Why the editors don't knuckle down and make these guys use quotation marks, etc. I don't know. A...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 19:46:38 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 08:32:48 -0700 2009
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