# The Lost Country - Hardcover

by **William Gay** (Author)

**A wonder of Southern Gothic storytelling. --_Southern Living_ (Best Southern Books of 2018)  
Southern Independent Booksellers Pick, July 2018**

Billy Edgewater is a harbinger of doom. Estranged from his family, discharged from the Navy, and touched by a rising desperation, he sets out hitchhiking home to East Tennessee, where his father is slowly dying.  
On the road, separately, are Sudy and Bradshaw, brother and sister, and a one-armed con man named Roosterfish. All, in one way or another, have their pasts and futures embroiled with D.L. Harkness, a predator in all the ways there are. Hounded at every turn by scams, vigilantes, grievous loss, and unspeakable violence, Edgewater navigates the long road home, searching for a place that may be nothing but memory.  
Hailed as "a seemingly effortless storyteller" by the _New York Times Book Review_ and "a writer of striking talent" by the _Chicago Tribune_, William Gay, with this long-awaited novel, secures his place alongside Faulkner, O'Connor, and McCarthy as one of the greatest novelists in the Southern Gothic tradition.

**Number of Pages:** 368

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 8.6 x 5.8 IN

**Publication Date:** July 10, 2018

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- **Price:** 26.95 USD
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