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From a celebrated master of the Southern Gothic comes a last collectionof hard-hitting short fiction, his final posthumous workBeloved for his novels Twilight, The Long Home,and The Lost Country ,and his groundbreaking collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down,William Gay returns with one final posthumous collection of short stories, adaptedfrom the archive found after his death in February 2012. In addition to previouslyunpublished short stories, Stories from the Attic includes fragmentsfrom two of the unpublished novels that were works in progress at the time ofhis death. Marked by his signature skill and bare-knuckled insight, this collection isa must-read for William Gay devotees and fans of Southern short fiction.
About the author
Born in Tennessee in 1939, William Gay began
writing at fifteen and wrote his first novel at twenty-five, but didn’t
begin publishing until well into his fifties. He worked as a TV
salesman, in local factories, did construction, hung sheetrock, and
painted houses to support himself. He preferred to sit in a kitchen
chair at the edge of the woods with a spiral-bound notebook on his knee,
writing in his peculiar scrawling longhand. His works include The Long
Home, Provinces of Night, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down,
Wittgenstein’s Lolita, and Twilight. His work has been adapted for the
screen twice, That Evening Sun (2009) and Bloodworth (2010). Most
recently, his debut novel has been optioned for film. He died in 2012.
Summary
From a celebrated master of the Southern Gothic comes a last collection
of hard-hitting short fiction, his final posthumous work
Beloved for his novels Twilight, The Long Home,and The Lost Country ,and his groundbreaking collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down,
William Gay returns with one final posthumous collection of short stories, adapted
from the archive found after his death in February 2012. In addition to previously
unpublished short stories, Stories from the Attic includes fragments
from two of the unpublished novels that were works in progress at the time of
his death.
Marked by his signature skill and bare-knuckled insight, this collection is
a must-read for William Gay devotees and fans of Southern short fiction.
