{"product_id":"i-hate-to-see-that-evening-sun-go-down-collected-stories-9780743242929","title":"I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories","description":"William Gay established himself as \"the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Lit\" (\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e) with his debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Home\u003c\/i\u003e, and his highly acclaimed follow-up, \u003ci\u003eProvinces of Night\u003c\/i\u003e. Like Faulkner's Mississippi and Cormac McCarthy's American West, Gay's Tennessee is redolent of broken souls. Mining that same fertile soil, his debut collection, \u003ci\u003eI Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down\u003c\/i\u003e, brings together thirteen stories charting the pathos of interior lives. Among the colorful people readers meet are: old man Meecham, who escapes from his nursing home only to find his son has rented their homestead to \"white trash\"; Quincy Nell Qualls, who not only falls in love with the town lothario but, pregnant, faces an inescapable end when he abandons her; Finis and Doneita Beasley, whose forty-year marriage is broken up by a dead dog; and Bobby Pettijohn -- awakened in the night by a search party after a body is discovered in his back woods. \u003cbr\u003e William Gay expertly sets these conflicted characters against lush backcountry scenery and defies our moral logic as we grow to love them for the weight of their human errors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Gay\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eProvinces of Night\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Long Home.\u003c\/i\u003e His short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's, The Georgia Review, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Oxford American, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew Stories from the South, 1999-2001.\u003c\/i\u003e The winner of the 1999 William Peden Award, the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize, and the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim fellowship, he lives in Hohenwald, Tennessee\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726455181586,"sku":"9780743242929","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7d5ccbfe-8277-4856-b9e8-832a863fc258.jpg?v=1734870679","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-hate-to-see-that-evening-sun-go-down-collected-stories-9780743242929","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}