In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine - until he...
'The Long Home' brings to mind the greatest writers of the American South - Flannery O'Connor, Tennessee Williams, Cormac McCarthy - and haunts the reader with its sense of solitude, longing and the deliverance that is always just out of reach.