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...BROTHER BILL by John Faulkner. 277 pages. Trident Press...
...William Faulkner? Was he that stately novelist who lived in baronial isolation in Oxford, Miss., carving great slabs of novels out of primeval truth? Was he that country squire who had a paneled trophy room and bought English saddles with kickout stirrups and riding outfits from Abercrombie & Fitch? Was he, perhaps, that barefoot gentleman who entered the dining room of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis after depositing a bottle of whisky under the stop light at the intersection of Second and Union...
...could never decide. He determined "about twelve years ago that if I survived Bill, I would write a book about him as he really was." But how Bill really was eluded not only his brother John but all the other members of that baronial Southern family for whom Novelist Faulkner was sometimes thought to speak. Faulkner, like any writer of genius was an original, and much of the fascination of his brother's memories lies in the fact that the sum of detail never accounts for the man and if John Faulkner furnishes few of the portentous correlations between...
Sweet Talk & Styleplus. In this curiously tribal world Bill was a natural leader. He could hurl wet corncobs at the neighboring kids with greater accuracy than either of his brothers; he could ride a horse bareback as no other Faulkner could; he could invent tales with such surpassing guile that for one whole winter he sweet-talked a schoolmate into slopping the hogs for him-in return for which service Bill entertained him with stories of madness and murder...
...educated men. The few foreign works include De Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Bryce's American Commonwealth. The committee tried to "avoid inflaming rivalry" by omitting all fiction by living American authors; had they not died recently, the library would not have Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway. But the American classics, old and new, are there: Emerson, Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Henry Adams, Henry James, Mark Twain, O.Henry, Sinclair Lewis, Howells, Fitzgerald-and, should presidential browsers care, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women...