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Thinking of Home - William Faulkner's Letters to his Mother and Father, 1918-1925 (Paperback)
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Thinking of Home - William Faulkner's Letters to his Mother and Father, 1918-1925 (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 860
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"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of
home," says Darl Bundren in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. How
much Faulkner himself is speaking may be suggested by this moving
collection of nearly 150 letters. Written during his twenties,
these letters describe Faulkner's first encounters with the North
(..".I made my first subway trip yesterday. The experience showed
me that we are not descended from monkeys, as some say, but from
lice."); his brief World War I military service, which grew in the
retelling; the productive New Orleans months with Sherwood
Anderson; and his first trip to Europe, with cold autumn days in
Paris ("Good thing the Lord gave these folks wine--they rate a
recompense of some kind for this climate.") Fascinating in
themselves for their close observation of people and places, the
letters also offer glimmers of The Sound and the Fury and other
future works, as the young writer stores up characters, settings,
and events that will re-emerge, transformed, int the great novels
of his maturity. Never before published, these letters are from the
Faulkner collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
at the University of Texas at Austin. "These letters, for years
sequestered and unavailable, are among the most informative,
touching, and eloquent William Faulkner ever wrote. No Faulkner
specialist can be without this book; no Faulkner admirer should be
without it." Joseph Blotner, author of Faulkner: A Biography"
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