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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679741925
ISBN-139780679741923
eBay Product ID (ePID)672721
Product Key Features
Book TitleReivers
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Gothic, Humorous / General
Publication Year1992
GenreFiction
AuthorWilliam Faulkner
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight8.8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN92-050095
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal813/.52
SynopsisOne of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests' black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba's bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues--involving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs' deputies, and jail.
This isn't world-class Faulkner but it's perhaps more entertaining than most of his other books, which is why I bought it. I read it years ago and will now do it again, and I'm looking forward to becoming reacquainted with the characters and the story.