The Lost Country
By: William Gay
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Ten years after it was first announced, Dzanc is proud to deliver the lost novel from a master of t…
Want to Read $ 9.49"Mad faces turned toward the hot sky. They demanded god smite all these whore mongers and adulterers, honky-tonk brawlers, whiskey drinking fornicators. That not even the young be spared for evil ran through them like a fault line."-William Gay, The Lost Country
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1. Suttree
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.20
Format: 471 pages, Paperback
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disi… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- literature
- southern
- fiction
- contemporary
- southern gothic
"Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
2. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
By: James Agee , Walker Evans
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the d… read more
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3. Poems: New and Selected
By: Ron Rash
3.87
Format: 237 pages, ebook
A collection of haunting lyricism that evokes the beauty and hardship of the rural South, by a reve… read more
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- southern
4. Knockemstiff
By: Donald Ray Pollock
4.12
Format: 207 pages,
Knockemstiff - litteralement " etale les raides " - existe vraiment. Ce n'est pas la moindre bizarr… read more
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- literature
- southern gothic
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Child of God
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- literature
- fiction
- southern gothic
6. The Bottoms
By: Joe R. Lansdale
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
The narrator of The Bottomsis Harry Collins, an old man obsessively reflecting on certain key exper… read more
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- thriller
- fiction
7. The Dog of the South
By: Charles Portis
4.27
Format: 24 pages,
The narrator is Ray Midge, down-at-the-heels Southerner after his wife. "Norma had run off with Guy… read more
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- literature
- southern
- fiction
- novels
8. The Orchard Keeper
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The O… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- literature
- southern
- fiction
- southern gothic
"See the hand that nursed the serpent."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"The old man remembered it now with dim regret, and remembered such nights when the air was warm as a breath and the moon no dead thing."-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
"A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and n…"-Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper
9. The Heavenly Table
By: Donald Ray Pollock
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Timeand Knockemstiff, com… read more
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10. Dirty Work
By: Larry Brown
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
Dirty Workis the story of two men, strangers--one white, the other black. Both were born and raised… read more
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11. Joe
By: Larry Brown
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.… read more
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13. Desperation Road
By: Michael Farris Smith
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"An elegantly written, perfectly-paced novel about a man and woman indelibly marked by violence" (R… read more
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14. In Our Time
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.74
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
First published in 1925, earning Hemingway praise as a promising American writer. Contains several … read more
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- literature
- fiction
"Isn't love any fun? Marjorie said. "No," Nick said."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"All right, said Nick. Let's get drunk. All right, Bill said. Let's get really drunk."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."-Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
15. The Gospel Singer
By: Harry Crews
3.57
Format: 307 pages,
To the dirt poor town of Enigma, Georgia, a local farm boy returns as a prosperous faith healer. Th… read more
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16. Father and Son
By: Larry Brown
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This classic story of good and evil takes place in the rural American South of 1968. After being re… read more
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17. Outer Dark
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more
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18. The Caretaker
By: Ron Rash
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more
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- literary fiction
- southern
- fiction
- novels
19. Blackwood
By: Michael Farris Smith
3.70
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfo… read more
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- gothic
- literary fiction
- southern
- fiction
- thriller
- southern gothic
20. The Night Always Comes
By: Willy Vlautin
3.85
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gen… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- novels
21. The Lost Country
By: William Gay
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Ten years after it was first announced, Dzanc is proud to deliver the lost novel from a master of t… read more
Want to Read $ 9.49Similar categories in William Gay's The Lost Country book and William Gay's The Lost Country
- gothic
- literary fiction
- novels
- literature
- american fiction
- southern
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- southern gothic
"Mad faces turned toward the hot sky. They demanded god smite all these whore mongers and adulterers, honky-tonk brawlers, whiskey drinking fornicators. That not even the young be spared for evil ran …"-William Gay, The Lost Country
