Retired professor Andrew Lachlan has returned to his family home on a lake in central Georgia to die. And yet he has never felt so alive, so ready to learn about the natural world around him. Having taught all his life, he is ready for solitude. But a young country boy, Willie Sullivan, disrupts Lachlan's search for order and rekindles memories he thought long dead.
Lachlan also finds Callie McKenzie, a woman he loved years earlier, and they soon begin to see in each other reflections of the lives they once led. Lachlan's journal of his year by the lake leads him to a deeper understanding of himself and the world. This book was winner of the prestigious Townsend Prize for Fiction and has never been out of print since it was first published 25 years ago by W.W. Norton and Co.
Paperback: 217 pages
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Philip Lee Williams’s latest book is the massive novel The Divine Comics: A Vaudeville Show in Three Acts, published in late 2011. His new novel, Emerson’s Brother, will be published in late spring 2012.
In 2011, the University of Georgia Press published a new edition of Williams's award-winning Civil War novel, A Distant Flame. This novel originally published by St. Martin's in 2004, was winner of the Michael Shaara Prize, given to the best single Civil War novel published in the United States the previous year.
Williams’s much-praised book-length poem, The Flower Seeker: An Epic Poem of William Bartram, came out in the fall of 2010. It was named Book of the Year by the national literary journal Books and Culture and won Williams his fourth Georgia Author of the Year Award.
All of Williams’s books are for sale at numerous online outlets and at many bookstores around the world. In addition, his works are in hundreds of libraries around the globe.
Symphony No. 17: Tenebrae
This symphony is subtitled "Tenebrae," which is a religious service in the Christian church but literally means "shadows" or "darkness" in Latin. It is a quiet, contemplative symphony, a single movement for full orchestra. (29'48")
Symphony No. 18: For the Civil Rights Martyrs
This work is subtitled "For the Civil Rights Martyrs" and is in memory of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, murdered in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 while working for Civil Rights. It is also in memory of all who died in the struggle. It is in two movements, "The Lynching" and "Souls."
One: The Lynching (15'25")
Two: Souls (14'25")
Symphony No. 17: Tenebrae
This symphony is subtitled "Tenebrae," which is a religious service in the Christian church but literally means "shadows" or "darkness" in Latin. It is a quiet, contemplative symphony, a single movement for full orchestra. (29'48")
Symphony No. 18: For the Civil Rights Martyrs
This work is subtitled "For the Civil Rights Martyrs" and is in memory of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, murdered in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 while working for Civil Rights. It is also in memory of all who died in the struggle. It is in two movements, "The Lynching" and "Souls."
One: The Lynching (15'25")
Two: Souls (14'25")
