Provinces of Night Paperback - 2002
by William Gay
In the rich Southern tradition that includes Cormac McCarthy, "Provinces of Night" is a mesmerizing novel of violence and redemption set in the hills of Tennessee from the award-winning author of "The Long Home."
Summary
From the jacket flap
It's 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth is finally coming home to Ackerman's Field, Tennessee. Itinerant banjo picker and volatile vagrant, he's been gone ever since he gunned down a deputy thirty years before. Two of his sons won't be home to greet him: Warren lives a life of alcoholic philandering down in Alabama, and Boyd has gone to Detroit in vengeful pursuit of his wife and the peddler she ran off with. His third son, Brady, is still home, but he's an addled soothsayer given to voodoo and bent on doing whatever it takes to keep E.F. from seeing the wife he abandoned. Only Fleming, E.F.'s grandson, is pleased with the old man's homecoming, but Fleming's life is soon to careen down an unpredictable path hewn by the beautiful Raven Lee Halfacre.
In the great Southern tradition of Faulkner, Styron, and Cormac McCarthy, William Gay wields a prose as evocative and lush as the haunted and humid world it depicts. Provinces of Night is a tale redolent of violence and redemption-a whiskey-scented, knife-scarred novel whose indelible finale is not an ending nearly so much as it is an apotheosis."
Details
- Title Provinces of Night
- Author William Gay
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Books, New York
- Date April 9, 2002
- ISBN 9780385499286 / 0385499280
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.28 x 0.67 in (20.27 x 13.41 x 1.70 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Tennessee
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Fathers and sons, Brothers
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- BookPage, 04/01/2002, Page 23
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