Books matching: rural tennessee 1950s
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Save:In a rural Tennessee town in the 1950s, 'Twilight' by William Gay tells the story of a teen brother and sister seeking revenge on an undertaker who desecrates the dead. The siblings discover the undertaker's dark secret and attempt to blackmail him, leading to a twisted chain of events involving hired killers and a chase through the Harrikin, a heavily wooded area. The prose in the book is described as having a Southern Gothic style, with a lack of punctuation for dialogue adding to the stark and dark atmosphere of the narrative.
They came up through the stand of cypress that shrouded the graveyard, the pickup hidden off the road in a chertpit clottedwith inkblot bowers of honeysuckle. There were two of them, a young woman and... - #2
Save:The Lost Country by William Gay follows the journey of the main character, Billy Edgewater, as he wanders through rural Tennessee in the 1950s. The story unfolds with encounters with various characters, some cleverly written while others are deemed predictable. The book is praised for its raw dialogue, capturing the essence of how people spoke and behaved during that time period in America. Despite some opinions mentioning a lack of a strong plot or character arcs, the novel is appreciated for its rich prose and vivid depiction of the setting.
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Save:A lovely bunch of words felt like reading aloud and did several times. Loved the language of the hill folk and the way the story was woven from person to person. And, like life, the threads were not tied off, but left to hang, ready for the next piece. Well worth the read. An interesting story of a family and their bonds during the early 1950's in the rural south. Fleming seemed, at first, to have no goals or outllok on life. As the story grew, so did Fleming's bond with his grandfather. Tough reading at times but very well written. Recommended reading. William Gay writes about the same area and subjects but his language is much more lyrical evocative. I LIKED Devil all the Time. I LOVE Provinces of Night. A strange and absurdly poignant novel, with an intriguing cast of characters and a slew of intersecting plotlines that give you an almost gnarled bluesman's roadman of life in rural times. What William Gay does best is shape a world that seems to exist outside of the pages character who still seem to be living even when they are outside the narrative. Fleming was one hell of a hero, and I could see a lot of myself in his thoughts and fears. EF, the old man, comes across as both genuine and lost, set adrift by thousands of bad decisions he's had a lifetime to fuck up. Strong, the archaic, almost atavistic, portrayal of the old fashioned Man. Jr Albright is a hilarious fool of a character, well meaning but silly beyond belief, like Cormac McCarthy's Harrogate mixed with a character from the Trailer Park Boys. Raven Lee was funny and charming, Boyd frustrating but intriguing, a mystery himself, the blood that flows thru Fleming. Brady is a mewling fool, as if he and Warren could make only one functioning man between them. Only the cobbled together conclusion, a wrap up, knocks this down from a 5. Truly funny and beautiful in many ways. The voices of dead bluesmen churning out their stories.
JUST AT TWILIGHT Boyd came up the graveled walk, the chain with its plowpoint weight drawing the gate closed behind him, before him the shanty black and depthless as a stageprop against the failing li...
