Little Sister Death, by William Gay
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David Binder is a young, successful writer living in Chicago and suffering from writer’s block. He stares at the blank page, and the blank page stares back harder. So when his agent suggests maybe a lighter sophomore novel, maybe something genre that they can sell real quick and buy him some more time to pen his magnum opus, he’s quick to recall an old ghost story he once heard. With his pregnant wife and his young daughter in toe, he sets out for Tennessee with high hopes of indulging the local lore surrounding Virginia Beale, Faery Queen of the Haunted Dell and whiling away the summer away from life in the city. But as his investigation goes further and further, and the creaking of the floor boards grows louder and louder, the David Binder realizes he’s not only endangered himself, but also his wife and daughter.A stirring literary rendition of Tennessee's famed Curse of the Bell Witch, Little Sister Death skillfully toes the line between Southern Gothic and Horror and further cements William Gay’s legacy as not only one of the South’s finest writers, but among the best that American literature has to offer.
Little Sister Death, by William Gay- Amazon Sales Rank: #487746 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-09-07
- Released on: 2015-09-07
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review Praise for Little Sister Death"A mixture of Flannery O'Connor and Stephen King...as if Faulkner had written The Shining." —Kirkus Reviews"a lovely small vessel of unease salvaged from a deep river" — The New York Times"The late William Gay is pure Tennessee Gothic. He is what Cormac McCarthy would have become if he had stayed in Tennessee writing about murder, incest, necrophilia and backwoods love. It’s hard to find writing this dark that feels this authentic." —James Franco"William Gay’s Little Sister Death is a dark, shimmering gift to readers. Marshaling all his monumental narrative powers and with prose as sharp and glittering as a scythe, he brings a tale so sinister, lush and spellbinding, it haunts your dreams long after you reach its final pages." —Megan Abbott, author of The Fever and Dare MePraise for The Long Home“…a writer of remarkable talent and promise…eminently worth talking about.” –The New York Times Book Review“Gay has created a novel of great emotional power.” –Denver Post“It’ll leave you breathless…” –Rocky Mountain NewsPraise for Provinces of Night“Earthily idiosyncratic, spookily Gothic…an author with a powerful vision.” –The New York Times“An extremely seductive read.” –Washington Post Book World“Southern writing at its very finest, soaked through with the words and images of rural Tennessee, packed full of that which really matters, the problems of the human heart.” –Booklist“A writer of striking talent.” –Chicago Tribune“Almost a personal revival of handwork in fiction—superb—must be listened to and felt.” –Barry Hannah“This is a novel from the old school. The characters are truly characters. The prose is gothic. And the charm is big.” –The San Diego Union-Tribune“Writers like Flannery O’Connor or William Faulkner would welcome Gay as their peer for getting characters so entangled in the roots of a family tree.” –Star Tribune (Minneapolis)“[A novel] about the preciousness of hope, the fragility of dreams, interwoven with a good-sized dollop[ of biblical justice and the belief that a Southern family can be cursed.” –The Miami Herald“Plumbs the larger things in life….The epic and the personal unite seamlessly.” –Milwaukee Journal Sentinel“An old-fashioned barrel-aged shot of Tennessee storytelling. Gay’s tale of ancient wrongs and men with guns is high-proof stuff.” –Elwood Reid“A finely wrought, moving story with a plot as old as Homer. Sometimes the old ones are the best ones.” –The Atlanta Journal-Constitution“William Gay is the big new name to include in the stories annals of Southern lit.” –Esquire“A plot so gripping that the reader wants to fly through the pages to reach the conclusion…but the beauty and richness of Gay’s language exerts a contrary pull, making the reader want to linger over every word.” –Rocky Mountain News“Gay is a terrific writer.” –The Plain DealerPraise for I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down“William Gay is richly gifted: a seemingly effortless storyteller…a writer of prose that’s fiercely wrought, pungent in edtail yet poetic in the most welcome sense.” –The New York Times Book Review“One perfect tale follows another, leaving you in little doubt that Gay is a genuine poet of the ornery, the estranged, the disenfranchised, crafting stories built to last.” –Seattle Times“A writer of striking talent.” –Chicago Tribune“Gay confirms his place in the Southern fiction pantheon.” –Publishers WeeklyEvery story is a masterpiece…in the Southern tradition of Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, and William Faulkner.” –USA Today“[A]s charming as it is wise. Hellfire—in all the right ways.” –Kirkus Reviews“[Gay] brings to these stories the same astounding talent that earned his two novels…devoted following.” –Booklist“Supple and beautifully told tales…saturated with an intense sense of place, their vividness and authenticity are impossible to fake.” –The San Diego Union-Tribune“Gay writes about old folks marvelously…[His] words ring like crystal…” –Washington Post Book World“As always, Gay’s description and dialogue are amazing…Writing like this keeps you read.” –Orlando Sentinel“After two stunning novels that combined the esoteric language of Cormac McCarthy with the subtle humor of Larry Brown, Gay delivers concise craft work in his first short-story collection….Much in the same way Erskine Caldwell created slice-of-life Southern stories that were full of humor, conflict, and even forbidden sensuality many years ago, so now does William Gay.” –The Oregonian“[Gay’s] strong words never fail to paint a precise picture….Fans of his novels will find lots of meaty reading here.” –The Montgomery Adviser“Gay’s characters come right up and bite you….[His] well-chosen words propel the reader straight through his 13 stories.” –The Denver Post“Even Faulkner would have been proud to call these words his own.” –The Atlanta Journal Constitution“Gay captivates with bristling tales of old men, bootleggers, and wife-beaters in rural Tennessee…his prose is as natural and pure as it comes.” –Newsweek“This book will have you laughing, fearful, and utterly filled with suspense—often all within the same well-crafted story.” –Southern Living“A literary country music song….With deft and lyrical prose he captures the poignancy of loss, isolation and double-fisted grief, of disappointment, rage, jealousy, violence, and heartbreak.” –GoMemphis.comPraise for Twilight“Think No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy and Deliverance by James Dickey...then double the impact.” –Stephen King on naming Twilight the best book of 2007 in Entertainment Weekly"There is much to admire here: breathtaking, evocative writing and a dark, sardonic humor." – USA Today“William Gay brings the daring of Flannery O’Connor and William Gaddis to his lush and violent surrealist yarns.” –The Irish Times“This is Southern Gothic of the very darkest hue, dripping with atmosphere, sparkling with loquacity, and with occasional gleams of horrible humor. To be read in the broadest daylight.” –The Times
About the Author Born in Tennessee in 1941, William Gay was a construction worker who didn t begin publishing until well into his fifties. His works include, "The Long Home, Provinces of Night, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, Wittgenstein s Lolita," and "Twilight." His work has been adapted for the screen twice, "That Evening Sun" (2009) and "Bloodworth" (2010). Most recently, his debut novel has been optioned for film. He died in 2012."
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Gothic Gem By A. J. Pecanic I'm a little surprised by the negative reviews here. I, too, am a William Gay fan, and I thoroughly enjoyed this book. This is a true gothic novel. There is atmosphere, ghosts, and the darkness of the human heart. Plus, I love stories where the main character is a writer.There are some other reviewers here who said that the novel didn't feel complete, but to me it did. The ending is very typical of a gothic novel. I don't want to give the ending away, but it did feel like the ending of "Turn of the Screw" or Stephen King's "Gerald's Game" (at least that's what it reminded me of), so if you like those, you'll like this book, too. Actually, I like Little Sister Death more than those other titles I just mentioned.To each his own, I suppose. However, if you're a William Gay fan or a fan of classic gothic novels, I'd definitely recommend this gem. Also, I really enjoyed the biographical information on William Gay in Tom Franklin's introduction.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. READ WITH DREAD LATELY? By Lisa DuMond Here's your chance to feel that uncertainty again. That questioning if it just might be too late to turn the next page; you do have to get up in the morning and it is after nine...Let me help prep you to really appreciate the atmosphere William Gay created in this, his only gothic ghost story. Surf over to Bing or your search engine of choice and look up the Bell Witch Legend, Tennessee's very OWN ghost story and the inspiration for this one. Take in the scary, skin-crawly details, because this is a nasty one. And you're about to jump into what Gay's mind made of that jumping-off point.Putting it plainly? It's a doozy.Oh, and this is definitely not the kind of story you want to read to your kids. Adults only here.Remember a little book titled The Shining? Maybe it's just me, but ever since then, when a writer takes his family off somewhere to jumpstart his writer's block I tense up. When he takes them in search of a nasty witch tale my guts start to gurgle. David Binder is that man in search of a story and he is heading back into his past to find the legend that has been, forgive me, haunting me all his life. And this is going to be the story that gets him back on the bestseller lists.It is quite a story. You can see why he wants to mine it for the gold barely buried there. What you see in the opening section though, makes you doubt that anyone should poke that with a stick. Violence, perversion, unanswered questions -- of course, Binder thinks heading to ground zero of this horror story is going to get him the good stuff. What it quickly gets him is in over his head.Sorry, if I tell you anymore it will spoil it for you and the last thing you want is to miss out on William Gay's venture into an area he never took to before. His deep roots in the South serve him beautifully. The amazing way he took our language and lovingly molded it into his own unique regional art.This is the Gay you know and then some. Just be ready for that sense of dread to pull you along to the final breathless word.-----------------Psssst!While you are relishing this discovery, listen to the truly terrifying part: just how close this book came to being a ghost itself. One man, archivist/editor Michael White, refused to let his late friend's work vanish, wading hip deep into decades of handwritten pages, notebooks, and fragments of stories. Without his exhausting, often frustrating, work many of William Gay's best works, including LITTLE SISTER DEATH would have been lost to time. True to form, he refuses to take any credit. Here, Michael, is a just the thinnest slice of recognition. You don't want it but, truly, I think even Gay would say you richly derserve it. Take a bow. We promise not to look.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. William We Hardly Knew Ye By william brooks Gay is one of my very favorite writers but somehow this book didn't quite match his previous works. It is said that the manuscript was found among his papers after his sudden death and maybe that was part of the problem, maybe he hadn't polished it. But I think just as likely it was the mixing of genres that may have thrown me off a bit - wherein he brings up the legendary Bell Witch story and thus the book jumps between the 1800s and the 1980s wherein the protagonist, a writer is researching the Bell Witch story to fictionalize in a new novel he hopes will buy him time to write a more serious novel with a much better paycheck. There were instances where Gay hits his stride here but the structure I felt hurt the overarching story. When Gay is on, he hits perfect notes, and he's rarely off. I'll just say that if you're a fan of the late Mr. Gay's you'll probably want to do as I did and read this one and add it to your collection. And like most of his works, I always read them a 2nd and 3rd time so maybe on the 2nd reading of this one I'll get more from it.
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