The Long Home

William Gay

ISBN 10: 1878448919 / ISBN 13: 9781878448910

Published by MacMurray & Beck, (1999), Denver:, 1999

About this Item

First Printing Fine in 1/4 black cloth and black paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. 252 pages of text. A fine, bright and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.

Seller Inventory # TB32129

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Long Home
• Publisher: MacMurray & Beck, (1999), Denver:
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1878448919
• ISBN 13: 9781878448910
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine - until he learns of it first-hand. Gay's remarkable debut novel, The Long Home, is also the story of Amber Rose, a beautiful young woman forced to live beneath that evil who recognizes even as a child that Nathan is her first and last chance at escape. And it is the story of William Tell Oliver, a solitary old man who watches the growing evil from the dark woods and adds to his own weathered guilt by failing to do anything about it. Set in rural Tennessee in the 1940s, The Long Home will bring to mind once again the greatest Southern novelists and will haunt the reader with its sense of solitude , longing, and the deliverance that is always just out of reach.

About the Author

William Gay lives in Hohenwald, Tennessee. His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Oxford American and The Missouri Review. He is at work on another novel and a collection of short stories.