Provinces of Night, William Gay
Provinces of Night, William Gay
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Provinces of Night

Author: William Gay

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 11 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/25/2005

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after twenty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by jealousy to hunt down his wife's lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mamma's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, treats him with the respect his age commands, and sees past all the hatred to realize the way it can posion a man's soul. It is ultimately the love of Raven Lee, a sloe-eyed beauty from another town, that gives Fleming the courage to reject this family curse.

About William Gay

William Gay is the author of the novel The Long Home. His short stories have appeared in Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, GQ, and New Stories from the South 1999 and 2000. He was awarded the 1999 William Peden Award and the 2000 James A. Michener Memorial Priz


Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi

I’m not sure how a book about such down and out characters – some of them violent, others bitter and unhinged, some vengeful, and others simply lost and lonely – could contain such beauty. And yet, it does. This southern gothic tale is refined and exquisitely written. Honestly, it was such a delight......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

I’m going to go with the best way I know to put this. If you took what I love about Cormac McCarthy, and what I love about Justified, and what I love about home, the center of that Venn diagram is this book. Meaning, there wasn’t a pleasure center in my brain this didn’t light up like Cleveland. Mean......more