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And they were frankly better than I had expected. Gay: Yeah, Tony Earley wrote that. It was a totally different environment up there. I met all these people, made friends who are still really close, like Tommy Franklin. The first person I met up there was [author] Barry Hannah.

Books by William Gay

It is, in fact, unedited, which is both mesmerizing and frustrating. The manuscript image at right used with permission from Sonny Brewer , which includes the lines in which the title appears, is beat for beat what appears in the book, set down all in one line of script by its author.

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He spoke in that interview about what it meant to him to become a professional writer:. Like rolling the dice. I never considered myself a writer before I actually got paid for it. The way I looked at it, if someone eventually paid you, even fifteen cents, if they saw any monetary value, you were a writer.

Inventing Tennessee's own Yoknapatawpha County

As in The Long Home , the twin heroes of this novel are the old man and the teenage boy, E. Provinces of Night includes no archetypal evildoer like Dallas Hardin, but the vixen-heroine is present in the form of Raven Lee Halfacre, a cagey wit at sixteen years old. Her heat snags Fleming in a net of longing; she smells of possibility, of liberation.