Provinces of Night
A Novel
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 Fl…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-48986-9
- EAN: 9780307489869
- Produktnummer: 15730815
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'948 KB
Über den Autor
William Gay was the author of the novels The Long Home and Provinces of Night. His fiction appeared in Harper's and Atlantic Monthly, among others, and he won the William Peden Award and the James Michener Memorial Prize. He passed away in 2012.
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