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Stories from the Attic

William Gay author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dzanc Books

Published:29th Aug '24

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  • Major national newspaper and magazine coverage push, including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, American Book Review, and others
  • Heavy push to Southern indies with significant lead time to create buzz among William's strongest supporters
  • Promotion on Lady banks' Bookshelf/SIBA in July 2022
  • Author-less events helmed by Sonny Brewer at key Southern bookstores and festivals
  • Inclusion at the Mississippi Book Fair, Southern Book Fest, Louisiana Book Fest, and the Southern Independent Bookseller Association regional tradeshow
  • Galley mailing and outreach to critical review outlets, both national and regional: the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Oxford American, Garden & Gun, Southern Living, and a host of other Southern outlets
  • E-galley available on Edelweiss
  • Promotion at AWP
  • Co-op budget available

    • 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 In addition to previously unpublished short stories, Stories from the Attic includes fragments from two of the unpublished novels that were works in progress at the time of his death.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.

    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

    ISBN: 9781950539963

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: unknown

    348 pages