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Authors: William Gay
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The water rose on implacably until it reached the crossroads, and late in the afternoon, when the light fell a certain way, you could see the beginnings of the wagon road leading down from the crossroads, see it lost from sight in the deepening water. The underwater road looked inexplicable, freighted with lost meaning, like some old imponderable road an ancient race had built to a place that no longer existed.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTThe author would like to acknowledge a debt to his agent, Amy Williams, and to thank her for her trust and friendship.
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2000 by William Gay
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:
Gay, William.
Provinces of night /William Gay.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Fathers and sons—Fiction.
2. Tennessee—Fiction.
3. Brothers—Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3557.A985 P76 2000
813’.54—dc21 00-024214
eISBN: 978-0-307-48986-9
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