The Long Home

By William Gay

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Long Home is the 1999 debut novel by William Gay, a Southern Gothic tale set in rural Tennessee. Years after his father vanished, young Nathan Winer goes to work for Dallas Hardin, the menacing local bootlegger who secretly murdered him. As Nathan falls in love with Hardin's stepdaughter, the two men's paths move toward a violent reckoning.

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