Provinces of Night

Name: Provinces of Night
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780571212149
Price: 32.99 NZD
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By William Gay

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Summary

Set in 1952, Provinces of Night follows E.F. Bloodworth who returns to his neglected Tennessee home after two decades. He finds his three estranged sons—Warren, Boyd, and Brady—entangled in bitterness and personal torment. Only his grandson Fleming, through love and courage, dares to break the family’s cycle of anger and hardship.
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The Bloodworths come from Ackerman's Field, Tennessee. Theirs is a rough and violent past and Boyd Bloodworth - father of the hero, Fleming - is intent on continuing the tradition. The year is 1952 and E.F. Bloodworth, Boyd's father, has returned after 20 years of roaming.

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The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home—a forgotten corner of Tennessee—after twenty years of roaming to find the three sons he abandoned are grown and angry: Warren is a womanising alcoholic, Boyd is obsessed with hunting down his wife's lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mother's porch.

Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, can see beyond all the hatred and the strife, and through the love of Raven Lee, a beauty from another town, he finds the courage to reject his family's curse.

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Richard Bernstein of the New York Times praises Gay's earth-toned, pungent prose and vivid portrayal of Tennessee life, declaring the book a powerful work rich with material. Eileen Battersby of the Irish Times highlights the tightly woven narrative and strongly drawn characters, calling it a fresh, original lament for the old South with lasting images and moments of genius.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571212149

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 August 2002

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 240g

Pages: 304

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction William Gay

About the Author

William Gay lives in Hohenwald, Tennessee. His work has appeared in the Georgia Review, the Oxford Review, and The Best American Mystery Stories 2001. He is the author of the novels The Long Home and Provinces of Night. Reviewing Provinces of Night, the New York Times Book Review wrote that 'Gay writes with the wisdom and patience of a man who has witnessed hard times . . . he looks upon beauty and violence with equal measure and makes an accurate accounting of how much of each the human heart contains'.

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