Fugitives of the Heart Hardback
by William Gay
Hardback
Description
In this, William Gay's last posthumous novel, we have his homage to Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Set in post-World War II Tennessee, in Gay's familiar "Harrikan" area. Marion Yates is a teenager recently orphaned when his notoriously licentious mother dies. When Yates eyes a pocketknife at the local grocery-hardware store, he is befriended by Black Crowe, who buys the knife for him. Yates in turn nurses Crowe through a work explosion, and the two form a seemingly lasting friendship. Yates falls in love, of course, and of course the love is thwarted. First love, racism, and betrayal-these are all topped with Gay's signature wry humor in his signature Tennessee fictional setting. Gay again proves himself a master of prose.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:Livingston Press at the University of West Al
- Publication Date:30/06/2021
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- ISBN:9781604892734
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-
Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:Livingston Press at the University of West Al
- Publication Date:30/06/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781604892734