William Gay

Broschiertes Buch

Stories from the Attic

Beschreibung

From a celebrated master of the Southern Gothic comes a last collectionof hard-hitting short fiction, his final posthumous workBeloved for his novels Twilight, The Long Home,and The Lost Country ,and his groundbreaking collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down,William Gay returns with one final posthumous collection of short stories, adaptedfrom the archive found after his death in February 2012. In addition to previouslyunpublished short stories, Stories from the Attic includes fragmentsfrom two of the unpublished novels that were works in progress at the time ofhis death. Marked by his signature skill and bare-knuckled insight, this collection isa must-read for William Gay devotees and fans of Southern short fiction.

Autor

Born in Tennessee in 1939, William Gay began writing at fifteen and wrote his first novel at twenty-five, but didn’t begin publishing until well into his fifties. He worked as a TV salesman, in local factories, did construction, hung sheetrock, and painted houses to support himself. He preferred to sit in a kitchen chair at the edge of the woods with a spiral-bound notebook on his knee, writing in his peculiar scrawling longhand. His works include The Long Home, Provinces of Night, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, Wittgenstein’s Lolita, and Twilight. His work has been adapted for the screen twice, That Evening Sun (2009) and Bloodworth (2010). Most recently, his debut novel has been optioned for film. He died in 2012.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dzanc Books
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 134mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781950539963
• ISBN-10: 1950539962
• Artikelnr.: 68917434