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Wittgenstein's Lolita
Gay maps out a landscape of love and death, exploring the terrain where a person's love of life interacts with their fear of the dark unknown. He portrays a character looking for love that reaches beyond death--with occasional morbid consequences.
Paperback, 72 pages
Published
March 31st 2006
by Wild Dog Press
(first published March 30th 2006)
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so people have been telling me and telling me to read WILLIAM* gay, and until now, i just haven't. what is wrong with me, i wonder?? because he is everything i love, if this one short story is any indication of his themes and style. he does what i like, and he does it very well.
yeah, i'm reviewing another short story, what of it?? this seems to be the week for that sort of behavior. and this is the last one from me, i promise. no more cheapening of goodreads.com.this book also contains a portion...more
yeah, i'm reviewing another short story, what of it?? this seems to be the week for that sort of behavior. and this is the last one from me, i promise. no more cheapening of goodreads.com.this book also contains a portion...more
Though it was through a story that I first found Gay, I've grown to prefer his longer work. His tremendous vocabulary and range show up in both forms, but the shorter works don't (can't?) convey the emotional spectrum we need in order to make sense of the violence that, with Gay, always appears.
I enjoyed the short story and the afterward, but did not read the excerpt for the Iceman as I want to real the whole book. I always enjoy reading William Gay and reading about him. I think I've read everything of his that has been published, but this compilation seemed just an excuse to get a work in the hands of the readers and perhaps make a few dollars, I suspect. One short story, an excerpt from a future book, and the afterward. Meh.
A short chapbook published by a buddy of Gay's, the 2 stories are top-notch, and the brief bio is interesting. According to Gay these stories will probably appear again in a larger collection due out next year.
William Gay is my favorite living writer. This very small book holds two very short stories about the most un-noteworthy things, but the stories are good, which is no surprise coming from Gay, and I loved them both.
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William Gay (b. 1943) was the author of the novels Provinces of Night, The Long Home, and Twilight and the short story collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down. He is the winner of the 1999 William Peden Award and the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize and the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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