Provinces of Night A Novel

Name: Provinces of Night A Novel
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ISBN: 9780385499286

ISBN-10: 0385499280

ISBN-13: 9780385499286

Edition: N/A

Authors: William Gay

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It’s 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth is finally coming home to Ackerman’s Field, Tennessee. Itinerant banjo picker and volatile vagrant, he’s been gone ever since he gunned down a deputy thirty years before. Two of his sons won’t be home to greet him: Warren lives a life of alcoholic philandering down in Alabama, and Boyd has gone to Detroit in vengeful pursuit of his wife and the peddler she ran off with. His third son, Brady, is still home, but he’s an addled soothsayer given to voodoo and bent on doing whatever it takes to keep E.F. from seeing the wife he abandoned. Only Fleming, E.F.’s grandson, is pleased with the old man’s homecoming, but Fleming’s life is soon to careen down an…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.99" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

William Gay is the author of the novel The Long Home. His short stories have appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, and New Stories from the South 1999 and 2000. The winner of the 1999 William Peden Award, he lives in Hohenwald, Tennessee.