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I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories
Written by William Gay
Narrated by Cristine McMurdo-Wallis, Tom Stechschulte, Pete Bradbury and Richard Ferrone
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Author William Gay is the winner of the 1999 William Peden Award and the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize. In his debut collection, Gay brings to life 13 stories about a diverse group of colorful characters living in the fertile Tennessee country land.
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William Gay
William Gay is the author of the novel The Long Home. His short stories have appeared in Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, GQ, and New Stories from the South 1999 and 2000. He was awarded the 1999 William Peden Award and the 2000 James A. Michener Memorial Priz
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5William Gay’s stories have gravity, intensity, and a deep sense of place. His characters learn the hard way “that sometimes in life you go through doors that only open one way.” Many of them have reached the end of the line in one manner or another, often involving violent death. People treat each other with cruelty but somehow retain their dignity, most of the time. Marriages are broken, people are deeply wounded. Stubborn old men are featured. In Sugarbaby a man takes stubbornness to the extreme – and this is after he shoots his wife’s dog off the porch because he “just couldn’t stand that goddamned yip yip yip.” An apparent suicide on a couple’s property reveals an unknown aspect of their relationship in A Death in the Woods. An old man whose son has put him in a nursing home returns on his own to find his house rented to a “loafer” in the title story, which also has some of the more amusing episodes in the collection. Gay has created his own town of Ackerman’s Field and a wild forest area called The Harrikin, based on his native Tennessee. He describes nature with passion: “Beyond the Rorschach trees the heavens were burnished with metallic rose so bright it seemed to pulse.” “The horizon had almost merged with the darkness. It was dissolving rapidly, like a horizon cut from paper and dropped into acid.”William Gay's South is a distinct place with a character of its own and stories that have strength and resonance.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You need to read this collection. Cause I told you to. Do it. Now. Now, darn it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5These well-written short stories will not be everyone's cup of tea -- they all contain some dark and/or disturbing elements. However, that darkness was just right for reading in October! The stories engaged me right away & the descriptions of Tennessee, both physical and cultural, were brilliant. I look forward to reading some of Gay's full length novels!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is my absolute favorite book of all time. The title story is amazing, the paperhanger is so scary. The best story for me was My Hand Is Just Fine Where It Is. That was an amazing story, and Mr. Gay was such a great writer. Thaey made a movie off of the title story and it was great, just one of those indie movies that touch your heart.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There wasn't much diversity in the emotion department in this collection. All the stories were filled with sad, depressing or gloomy feelings. While most of the stories were engaging, I did become tired of experiencing dreariness. And, the lack of quotation marks was not helpful either. However, overall I enjoyed the writing, especially the fact that Gay was able to draw me into his stories even when I knew they were not going to turn out well. The average rating of all 13 stories correlates with my general feelings by the end of the book.Originally posted on: Thoughts of Joy
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gay's stories, like his novels, are atmospheric, dark, and deeply satisfying. It's the voice, though, that grabs. After one paragraph you know you are in the hands of an assured, confident writer. In addition to a formidable vocabulary (stygian?) he reinvents language, creates compounds that make poetic sense : hearthammer, foldup, halfbent. In later books, more dashes appear to legitimize his creations, which is a shame, but what can you do? If kittens, rainbows and bloodless murder mysteries are your favorite things, steer clear of this southern gothic writer who shrinks from nothing. "The Paperhanger" in particular, is not for the faint of heart.