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The Reivers

William Faulkner

Paperback | Pages: 305 pages

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Title	:	The Reivers
Author	:	William Faulkner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Vintage International Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 305 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1992 by Vintage International (first published 1962)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics

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One 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--invoving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs' deputies, and jail.

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Original Title:	The Reivers
ISBN:	0679741925 (ISBN13: 9780679741923)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lucius Priest, Boon Hogganbeck, Ned McCaslin, Miss Corrie, Miss Reba
Setting:	Memphis, Tennessee(United States) Tennessee(United States) Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1963)

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Some initial thoughts---the often matter-of-fact relations between black and white in trying situations, when they (in this case men) sit together and actually talk some things out. Not equal but as co-conspirators on this earth. Women--sacred or profane, little seen or altogether too much present. I want to read so much more and see more Faulkner women.The young---of body (Lucius) or mind (Boon) certainly led us on a wonderful chase but without the wiles of Ned (the fool?) there would have been

An old man is reciting the unusual yet true story to his own grandson, named after him of long ago when he was eleven, Lucius Priest a comfortable but uninspired life he led, in the small town of Jefferson, northern Mississippi with his parents and three younger brothers, the year 1905. His father makes him work at the family's livery stable every Saturday, for 10 cents a day to know the benefits of employment. But the dullness will soon evaporate, Boon Hogganbeck all six foot 4 inches tall,

The first 50+ pages was like listening to someone tell a story with so many tangents and sentences so long that I forget where it was even headed to being with. I understand the style was part of the story, but I don't like hearing a story told in that manner in real life, so it lost its novelty quickly. I laughed out loud once, but the rest of the humor never even got a smile. The only reason I can see this won a Pulitzer is because of the year it was published and the racial commentary (not a

An imagined meeting between William Faulkner and Random House marketing executive James Inge:James Inge: Bertie! Great to see you my man. Congratulations on finishing up your big trilogy. Boy, those Snopeses, am I right? Pull up a seat.William Faulkner: Hello James, thanks. I want to talk with you about my next book. There's something that's been bothering me. JI: Is it the pressure of history, the force of a host of ancestors or past decisions like vengeful furies breaking into the present and

At my high school, they introduced us to Faulkner with SANCTUARY. I never returned to him until this summer, when somewhere or other I picked up a copy of this, Faulkner's last novel, published a month before he died in 1962. The following year, it won a Pulitzer, yet it is one of his least-known works. I am convinced this is the novel with which to introduce readers to Faulkner. It is set in the fictitious Yoknapatawpha County that is the setting of several of his novels, a landscape with a

Faulkner went back to his roots with the last book of his life. The classic dysfunctional group/family goes on a ill advised journey to somewhere they never should've gone. I love "As I Lay Dying" and this book brought me back to that so much. A young boy comes of age in a humorous and unlikely setting while being shaped by some memorable characters.

The automobile has come to the deep South and it causes the menfolk to lose their heads momentarily. They take a trip into the big city of Memphis, visit a whorehouse and get themselves neck deep in trouble. Somewhat ironically, because of a car, a horserace breaks out. In the midst of it all is our narrator, an 11-yer-old boy. There were times when Faulkner's usually enjoyable molasses-slow writing style combined in an unpleasant way with repetition, creating a bit of a bore of a book. I might