William Gay Fugitives of the Heart Hardcover Book

In this, William Gays last posthumous novel, we have his homage to Twains Huckleberry Finn. Set in postWorld War II Tennessee, in Gays familiar "Harrikan" area. Marion Yates is a teenager recently orphaned when his notoriously licentious mother dies. When Yates eyes a pocketknife at the local groceryhardware store, he is befriended by Black Crowe, who buys the knife for him. Yates in turn nurses Crowe through a work explosion, and the two form a seemingly lasting friendship. Yates falls in love, of course, and of course the love is thwarted. First love, racism, and betrayalthese are all topped with Gays signature wry humor in his signature Tennessee fictional setting. Gay again proves himself a master of prose. | William Gay Fugitives of the Heart Hardcover Book