Go Down, Moses - Softcover

Faulkner, William

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ISBN 10: 0099585715 ISBN 13: 9780099585718

Publisher: Vintage, 1996

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Seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. His characters are humble people who live out their lives within the same small circle of the earth, who die unrecorded. Their epitaphs make a fitting introduction to one of the great American writers of the century.

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About the Author:

Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962.

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

These dramatic stories reveal Faulkner's powerful and compassionate understanding of the Deep South - the brutal forces that shape the land and its people, the sin and savagery that take place there. His characters are simple people who live out their lives in the same small spand of the earth, and die unrecorded. Their epitaphs make a fitting introduction to one of the greatest American writers of this century.

'A richness of colour and feeling that belongs to maturity...exceptional wisdom and sympathy'
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