If you like Faulkner and McCarthy a great book by William Gay!

In 1952, EF Bloodworth, itinerant musician finally comes home in the backwoods of Tennessee with his guitar and his banjo after twenty years Derrance. The wife that he has left parched and withered sest and gently slips into senile dementia. His three son Warren, and Brady Boyd, now adults, are not willing to forgive him his desertion. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic; Boyd left his 17 year old son, Fleming, who dreams of becoming a writer, only the family home to track the lover of his wife; about Brady, who looks after his aging mother, he throws curses his enemies in the hope to have power over them. The only family member to be treated with respect Bloodworth, this is his grand-son, Fleming, who can not stand the hatred that animates his relatives, these adults over blood ties strangle that they do the weld.

This author's second novel, written after "The Long Home" (Eternal Mansion) and before "Twilight" (Death at dusk), he sen distinguished by its subject and tone: here not dincursion in the thriller, and deliberately humorous passages where the author nhésite not making fun of her kindly dexcentriques band. However, William Gay readers will find the atmosphere of the Deep South that he knows so well evoke rural Tennessee for years 1950, an unforgettable cast of characters, a strong sense of dialogue, intense style of poetic and lyrical moments that transmits if although his love of nature, and a strong story that addresses without cumbersome eternal themes: love, loyalty, betrayal, forgiveness, the transition to adulthood, a family that is torn, the call of the great outdoors (including father returned while his three son are about to succumb dy), and one can only sattacher these characters as William Gay sustains us space of a summer in the sweltering heat of Tennessee, this summer the young Fleming dedicated to get to know his grandfather. The book's title is borrowed from Cormac McCarthy and lindique sentence thereof, appearing stressed and taken from his novel A child of God (1973):

"Sil were the provinces of darkest night again, he would have found. "

William Gay shares with a pedigree McCarthy claimed to William Faulkner, and reading "Provinces of Night", we think of Faulkner and Carson McCullers while admiring a work deeply moving and original.

Note:
This novel was adapted to film in 2010 under the title Bloodworth, a film by Shane Dax Taylor Kris Kristofferson in the lead role.