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First published in 1976, The Year the Lights Came On was Terry Kay's debut novel. Revolving around the electrification of rural northeast Georgia shortly after the end of World War II, the novel has become a classic coming-of-age story. Kay, now an acclaimed writer with an international... read more

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First Sentence

THIS WAS the Big Gully Oath: "I swear that for the rest of my whole life I won't never tell what goes on in the Big Gully, and I swear I will always take up for everybody here, no matter what.

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  1. Terry Kay (Author)
 

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