In the rich Southern tradition that includes Cormac McCarthy, Provinces of Night is a mesmerizing novel of violence and redemption set in the hills of Tennessee from the award-winning author of The Long Home.
Provinces of Night is a tale redolent of violence and redemption-a whiskey-scented, knife-scarred novel whose indelible finale is not an ending nearly so much as it is an apotheosis..
In the great Southern tradition of Faulkner, Styron, and Cormac McCarthy, William Gay wields a prose as evocative and lush as the haunted and humid world it depicts.
Only Fleming, E.
F.\'s grandson, is pleased with the old man\'s homecoming, but Fleming\'s life is soon to careen down an unpredictable path hewn by the beautiful Raven Lee Halfacre. from seeing the wife he abandoned.
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.
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.
Itinerant banjo picker and volatile vagrant, he\'s been gone ever since he gunned down a deputy thirty years before.
Bloodworth is finally coming home to Ackerman\'s Field, Tennessee.
It\'s 1952, and E.
F.
In the rich Southern tradition that includes Cormac McCarthy, Provinces of Night is a mesmerizing novel of violence and redemption set in the hills of Tennessee from the award-winning author of The Long Home
