Author

Contributions

  • Brewer, Sonny, writer of foreword - Contributor

Publication

2018 - , Michigan

Language

English

Word Count

90,500 words, Guess

Page Count

362 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101945814527
  • ISBN-139781945814525
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017059574
  • OCLC Control Number1019835802
  • Better World Books9781945814525
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.6
  • LCCPS3557.A985 L67 2017
  • LCCPS3557.A985L67 2017

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The lost country2018-01-01

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