Fugitives of the heart - william gay

In this, William Gays last posthumous novel, we have his homage to Twains Huckleberry Finn.

Set in post-World 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 grocery-hardware 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 betrayal-these are all topped with Gays signature wry humor in his signature Tennessee fictional setting.

Gay again proves himself a master of prose.