Requiem For a Nun (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Faulkner, William

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9780140014358: Requiem For a Nun (Modern Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0140014357 ISBN 13: 9780140014358

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1973

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Requiem for a Nun

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Review:

"A revolutionary novelist - he experiments with narration like no other" (Guardian)

"His mind to him a kingdom was; or rather, a county, Yoknapatawpha. He breathed on it and gave it life, a luminous world of rustics, comic and sinister, of inchoate historical processes and tragic human beings, earning dignity by endurance" (Independent)

"The magnitude of Faulkner's characters lies in their blood and bone and sinew: the exquisite specificity of their human fallibility... Faulkner seemed incapable of separating intimate character from universal truth, and this rough refusal - both humble and defiant - was at the root of his force as a writer... No other American writer has achieved such staggering heights of form" (Boston Globe)

"There is tension and passion enough in this drama. The impetus never fails" (Observer)

Book Description:

A tense and troubling tale of how a dark past can return to tear apart a hard-won present peace.

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