New York, USA,: Doubleday, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First American Edition, First Printing. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) with the number "1" 'First Edition' and a full numberline to the copyright page to indicate a true first print.Signed and Dated by William Gay to the title page. [William Gay 1-23-01] Some pushing to the top of the spine otherwise as new and unread..

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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Bookseller: Kelleher Rare Books (IE)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 005773
Title: Provinces of Night
Author: Gay, William
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0385499272
ISBN 13: 9780385499279
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: New York, USA,
Date Published: 2000
Keywords: PROVINCES OF NIGHT,WILLIAM GAY, SIGNED
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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