Themes William Gay (author)
gay’s fiction set in rural south of 1940s , 50s. alone lends air of old-fashioned authenticity similar of faulkner , o’connor. gay s south darkly violent , dirt-poor caldwell or o’connor. gay s novels take shape of coming-of-age stories. 3 novels depict young idealistic boys turn men through series of violent encounters in must make tough moral decisions face , defeat evil against. recurrent theme in gay s fiction preoccupation plain folk, such carpenters , bootleggers, kin of young men coming of age. in addition, provinces of night deals issue peculiar upper south of period, condemnation of private property development of new dam tennessee valley authority.
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