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Intruder in the Dust
William Faulkner
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Description for Intruder in the Dust
Paperback. An elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas Beauchamp, is wrongfully arrested for the murder of a white man. The lynch mob are baying for his blood. His sole hope lies with a young white boy, bent on repaying an old favour, who with the help of Lucas's cynical lawyer will work to find the truth and hatch a risky plot to prove his innocence. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with some shelf wear. Inscription on ffep and writing on last page, remains a good copy
Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, Intruder in the Dust is the novel that marks the final phase of its author's outstanding creative period. The chronicle of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and under threat from the lynch mob is a characteristically Faulknerian tale of dark omen, its sole ray of hope the character of the young white boy who repays an old favour by proving the innocence of the man who saved him from drowning in an icy creek.
Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, Intruder in the Dust is the novel that marks the final phase of its author's outstanding creative period. The chronicle of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and under threat from the lynch mob is a characteristically Faulknerian tale of dark omen, its sole ray of hope the character of the young white boy who repays an old favour by proving the innocence of the man who saved him from drowning in an icy creek.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099740315
SKU
KCW0001450
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Ref
99-1
About William Faulkner
Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962.
Reviews for Intruder in the Dust
A work of timeless importance
New York Times
He has written a novel which in form is a thriller - and a very good thriller too - but this without distracting from its profundity
New Statesman
There is an extraordinary vigor and power in his writing, a feverish urge toward description in which words combine in a dense web of meaning
Chicago Tribune
The greatest American writers of the last century were William Faulkner and Saul Bellow
Philip Roth In a single brief decade, Faulkner had produced more lasting works of fiction than many great writers do in a lifetime
Guardian
New York Times
He has written a novel which in form is a thriller - and a very good thriller too - but this without distracting from its profundity
New Statesman
There is an extraordinary vigor and power in his writing, a feverish urge toward description in which words combine in a dense web of meaning
Chicago Tribune
The greatest American writers of the last century were William Faulkner and Saul Bellow
Philip Roth In a single brief decade, Faulkner had produced more lasting works of fiction than many great writers do in a lifetime
Guardian