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The Reivers: A Reminiscence
(Paperback, 1992)
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Author: William Faulkner
Faulkner's last novel, THE REIVERS, won the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially comic novel, it tells the...
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Synopsis
Faulkner's last novel, THE REIVERS, won the Pulitzer Prize. An essentially comic novel, it tells the story of 11-year-old Lucius "Loosh" Priest; Boon Hogganbeck, who works for Loosh's grandfather; and the black chauffeur, Ned McCaslin. The three embark on a picaresque adventure, stealing Loosh's grandfather's Winton Flyer automobile to go on a joyride to Memphis, where they become involved in a horse smuggling scheme, spend time in jail, and end up at Miss Reba's brothel.
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Grandfather said: This is the kind of man Boon Hogganbeck was."
Industry Reviews
"The striking thing about this superlative book is that it is Faulkner's only complete comedy....The farce is as deeply embedded in local life as everything else in Faulkner is. It easily surpasses Somerville and Ross or Surtees: it matches Mark Twain."
New Statesman - V. S. Pritchett (09/28/1962)
"A boy's adventure story, almost a classic example, utilizing to the extent of parody all the time-honored devices that distinguish boy's fiction...There is a somewhat strained and abrupt Happy Ending...Mr. Faulkner...has made a few concessions to the boy's adventure genre--in plot, theme, and the untypical general warmth of the book--but neither style, weight, nor intensity is sacrificed."
New York Herald Tribune Book Review - George Plimpton (05/27/1962)
"[This novel] is a deliberately minor work, in which Faulkner does not strain as he has in his recent novels to compound a total vision of life; but perhaps for that very reason, it is almost entirely successful."
New York Times Book Review - Irving Howe (06/03/1962)
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