Stories from the Attic - by William Gay (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

From a celebrated master of the Southern Gothic comes a last collection
of hard-hitting short fiction, his final posthumous work

Beloved for his novels Twilight, The Long Home, and The Lost Country, and his groundbreaking collection I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down,
William Gay returns with one final posthumous collection of short stories, adapted
from the archive found after his death in February 2012. In addition to previously
unpublished short stories, Stories from the Attic includes fragments
from two of the unpublished novels that were works in progress at the time of
his death.

Marked by his signature skill and bare-knuckled insight, this collection is
a must-read for William Gay devotees and fans of Southern short fiction.

Review Quotes

Praise for William Gay

"Gay's great abilities in character building, richness of language and storytelling are on full display." -Charles Frazier, author of Varina

"William Gay is richly gifted: a seemingly effortless storyteller...a
writer of prose that's fiercely wrought, pungent in detail yet poetic in
the most welcome sense." -The New York Times Book
Review

"Gay's style was fully formed: sinister and lovely, dark and atmospheric, blood-soaked and word-drunk. He fit squarely in the Southern Gothic tradition, but the languid, unrolling richness of his language made the stories and novels that followed feel fresh, a rebirth of a genre prone to pale imitations." -Wall Street Journal

"The pleasure that Gay, a self-educated Vietnam veteran, takes from language is frequently a thing of beauty...A Dickensian feel for character makes his stories surge with life while the sharp dialogue is furious, funny and very southern. ....Gay, an instinctive original, had the spark of natural genius." -The Irish Times

"William Gay could write a grocery list and make it sing and burn off
the pages in equal measure." -Heavy Feather
Review

"William Gay is a flat-out monster." -Parnassus Recommended Reads

"Writers like Flannery O'Connor or William Faulkner would welcome Gay as their peer for getting characters so entangled in the roots of a family tree." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
"A writer of striking talent." --Chicago Tribune