{"product_id":"provinces-of-night-isbn-9780385499286","title":"Provinces of Night","description":"It’s 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth is finally coming home to Ackerman’s Field, Tennessee. Itinerant banjo picker and volatile vagrant, he’s been gone ever since he gunned down a deputy thirty years before. Two of his sons won’t be home to greet him: Warren lives a life of alcoholic philandering down in Alabama, and Boyd has gone to Detroit in vengeful pursuit of his wife and the peddler she ran off with. His third son, Brady, is still home, but he’s an addled soothsayer given to voodoo and bent on doing whatever it takes to keep E.F. from seeing the wife he abandoned. Only Fleming, E.F.’s grandson, is pleased with the old man’s homecoming, but Fleming’s life is soon to careen down an unpredictable path hewn by the beautiful Raven Lee Halfacre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the great Southern tradition of Faulkner, Styron, and Cormac McCarthy, William Gay wields a prose as evocative and lush as the haunted and humid world it depicts. \u003cb\u003eProvinces of Night\u003c\/b\u003e is a tale redolent of violence and redemption–a whiskey-scented, knife-scarred novel whose indelible finale is not an ending nearly so much as it is an apotheosis. \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“An extremely seductive read.”–\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gay is unafraid to tackle the biggest of the big themes, nor does he shy away from the grand gesture that makes those themes manifest.”–\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There is much to admire here: breathtaking, evocative writing and a dark, sardonic humor.”–\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Earthily idiosyncratic, spookily Gothic . . . an author with a powerful vision.” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eWilliam Gay was the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Long Home\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eProvinces of Night\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMonthly\u003c\/i\u003e, among others, and he won the William Peden Award and the James Michener Memorial Prize. He passed away in 2012.","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303243075813,"sku":"NP9780385499286","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385499286.jpg?v=1767735186","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/provinces-of-night-isbn-9780385499286","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}