I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down

William Gay firmly established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit" (Esquire) with his debut novel, The Long Home, and his critically acclaimed follow-up, Provinces of Night. Like Faulkner''s Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy''s American West, Gay''s Tennessee is redolent of broken, colorful souls hard at work charting the pathos of their interior lives.

His ...