The Long Home

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Summary: If only I could give it ten stars!
Review: William Gay has managed what few authors ever have: reduce me to tears with the prayer-like beauty of his language. There isn't a dead word or flat sentence on any of this book's pages. I await his next novel as I've awaited no other before it.

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Summary: william Gay is a genius
Review: William Gay is a genius. This book had everything- great plot,surprises, great dialogue, and great characters. Dallas Hardin wasone of the best villians to come along in ages. And William Tell Oliver is one of the most unlikely and unwilling heroes! Excellent

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Summary: The Hard Road of The Long Home
Review: William Gay's novel, The Long Home, is a novel that will one day be known as a classic. It's villian, Hardin, is one of the meanest SOB's to inhabit a great work of fiction since Cormac McCarthy's Judge in Blood Meridian. If you enjoy McCarthy's work, you'll love this. Gay is on his way to becoming one of America's finest novelists, so hop on board the train and get this, his first novel, while first editions are still available. A great, great novel.

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Summary: 'Almost Hope'
Review: WOW! This story will wake you up. Filled with hard people who want something, it is told with beauty and horror and you can never assume anything. The characters are written so well I felt as if they were looking at me as I read about their tragedies. It is a telling of 'almost hope' and 'almost light'. I hope William Gay writes many more stories.