Details
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Title
Twilight
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Author
Gay, William
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Binding
Hardcover
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Edition
First Edition
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Condition
Used - Very Good
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Pages
224
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
MacAdam/Cage Publishing, Incorporated, San Francisco
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Date
October 20, 2006
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Bookseller's Inventory #
2723758-6
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ISBN
9781596920583 / 1596920580
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Weight
1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
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Dimensions
9.34 x 6.2 x 0.97 in (23.72 x 15.75 x 2.46 cm)
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Library of Congress subjects
Suspense fiction, Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
2006019865
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Dewey Decimal Code
FIC
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Summary
From the acclaimed author of Provinces of Night, a Southern gothic novel about an undertaker who won't let the dead rest. Suspecting that something is amiss with their father's burial, teenager Kenneth Tyler and his sister Corrie venture to his gravesite and make a horrific discovery: their father, a whiskey bootlegger, was not actually buried in the casket they bought for him. Worse, they learn that the undertaker, Fenton Breece, has been grotesquely violating the town's dead, enacting his perverse fantasies. Armed with incriminating photographs, Tyler becomes obsessed with bringing the perverse undertaker to justice. But first he must outrun Granville Sutter, a local strongman and convicted murderer hired by Fenton to destroy the evidence. What follows is an adventure through the Harrikin, an eerie backwoods filled with tangled roads, rusted machinery, and eccentric squatters-old men, witches, and families among them-who both shield and imperil Tyler as he runs for safety. With his poetic, haunting prose, William Gay rewrites the rules of the gothic fairytale while exploring the classic Southern themes of good and evil. About the author: William Gay lives in Hohenwald, Tennessee. He is the author of the novels The Long Home and Provinces of Night and the short story collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down.
From the publisher
William Gay lives in Hohenwald, Tennessee. He is the author of the novels The Long Home and Provinces of Night, and the short story collection I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down.
Media reviews
Praise for William Gay:
“...The Long Home promises to be one of the most discussed Southern debuts since Brown's Facing the Music...”
— New York Times Book Review
“An extremely seductive read.”
— Washington Post Book World
“There is much to admire here: breathtaking, evocative writing and a dark, sardonic humor.”
— USA Today
“Gay delivers another remarkable literary powerhouse…Full to the hilt with deeply engrossing characters and surroundings, [Provinces of Night] will surely capture the hearts and minds of any reader.”
— Library Journal
“…a powerful story of honor, love, and other conflicts of the human heart…southern writing at its very finest, soaked through with the words and images of rural Tennessee, packed full of that which really matters, the problems of the human heart.”
— Booklist
About the author
William Gay lives in Hohenwald, Tennessee. He is the author of the novels The Long Home" "and Provinces of Night," "and the short story collection I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down.
