{"product_id":"the-lost-country-9781945814884","title":"The Lost Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eTen 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBilly 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHailed as \"a seemingly effortless storyteller\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \"a writer of striking talent\" by the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGay, William:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Born in Tennessee in 1939, \u003cb\u003eWilliam Gay\u003c\/b\u003e began writing at fifteen and wrote his first novel at twenty-five, but didn't begin publishing until well into his fifties. He worked as a TV salesman, in local factories, did construction, hung sheetrock, and painted houses to support himself. He preferred to sit in a kitchen chair at the edge of the woods with a spiral-bound notebook on his knee, writing in his peculiar scrawling longhand. His works include \u003ci\u003eThe Long Home, Provinces of Night, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, Wittgenstein's Lolita, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTwilight\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been adapted for the screen twice, \u003ci\u003eThat Evening Sun\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) and \u003ci\u003eBloodworth\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). Most recently, his debut novel has been optioned for film. He died in 2012.","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50476460867858,"sku":"9781945814884","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e208dea4-080f-4b39-b11f-de98e6e176e1.jpg?v=1730251717","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-lost-country-9781945814884","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}