The Lost Country
Ann Arbor, MI: Dzanc Books, 2018. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine. Item #2354803
ISBN: 9781945814525
First edition. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xvi, 362 pp. Introduction by Sonny Brewer and afterword by J.M. White. The third posthumously published novel by William Gay, celebrated author of Southern Gothic fiction. Billy Edgewater is a harbinger of doom. Estranged from his family, discharged from the Navy, and touched by a rising desperation, he sets out hitchhiking home to East Tennessee, where his father is slowly dying. On the road, separately, are Sudy and Bradshaw, brother and sister, and a one-armed con man named Roosterfish. All, in one way or another, have their pasts and futures embroiled with D.L. Harkness, a predator in all the ways there are. Hounded at every turn by scams, vigilantes, grievous loss, and unspeakable violence, Edgewater navigates the long road home, searching for a place that may be nothing but memory. Hailed as "a seemingly effortless storyteller" by the New York Times Book Review and "a writer of striking talent" by the Chicago Tribune, William Gay, with this long-awaited novel, secures his place alongside Faulkner, O'Connor, and McCarthy as one of the greatest novelists in the Southern Gothic tradition.
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