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A review by andyc_elsby232
Provinces of Night by William Gay
5.0
Deeply moving. Hilarious, sprawling, personal... It's a total dream book, and I couldn't be happier that I gave it a chance. I found it sitting on my to-read list and for the life of me couldn't remember when the fuck I'd added it. It's in absolute love with the writing of Cormac McCarthy, particularly with the book 'Suttree', as most of William Gay's storytelling quirks here are derived from the episodic nature of that novel.
What keeps it from being a mere chase at McCarthy is that the prose is as good as those early novels like 'Child of God' and 'Suttree', the latter being one of my five favorite books. And like that, the characters are either deeply lovable or so deeply flawed they stain themselves onto the reader's memory.
I listened to this as an audiobook, read by Dick Hill, and his voice combined with this largely underappreciated man's words made for an experience that, to me, was basically magic. Looking at the details of the book on here, I was startled to see how short of a work it actually was. By the end I felt like I'd experienced a lifetime away from my own.
What keeps it from being a mere chase at McCarthy is that the prose is as good as those early novels like 'Child of God' and 'Suttree', the latter being one of my five favorite books. And like that, the characters are either deeply lovable or so deeply flawed they stain themselves onto the reader's memory.
I listened to this as an audiobook, read by Dick Hill, and his voice combined with this largely underappreciated man's words made for an experience that, to me, was basically magic. Looking at the details of the book on here, I was startled to see how short of a work it actually was. By the end I felt like I'd experienced a lifetime away from my own.