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Can I read The Lost Country on EtoBox?
The Lost Country by William Gay is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Lost Country about?
<b>Ten years after it was first announced, Dzanc is proud to deliver the lost novel from a master of the Southern Gothic—the work William Gay fans have anticipated for a decade.</b> <br> Billy Edgewater is a harbinger of doom. Estranged from his family, discharged from the Navy, and touched by a rising desperation, he sets out hitchhiking home to East Tennessee, where his father is slowly dying.<br> On the road, separately, are Sudy and Bradshaw, brother and sister, and a one-armed con man named Roosterfish. All, in one way or another, have their pasts and futures embroiled with D.L. Harkness, a predator in all the ways there are. Hounded at every turn by scams, vigilantes, grievous loss, and unspeakable violence, Edgewater navigates the long road home, searching for a place that may be nothing but memory. <br> Hailed as “a seemingly effortless storyteller” by the <i>New York Times Book Review</i> and “a writer of striking talent” by the <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, William Gay, with this long-awaited novel, secures his place alongside Faulkner, O’Connor, and McCarthy as one of the greatest novelists in the Southern Gothic tradition.
Who reads The Lost Country?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- William Gay
- Publisher
- Dzanc Books
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781945814693
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (200 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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