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This intrusion into the tired dust of the Faulkner country carries little conviction, even though 38-year-old Author Gordon was born in Savannah, comes of an old Southern family, and obviously is against lynchings. His variation on an old theme, played for chills, is not likely to add to anybody's understanding of a complex problem...
Collected Stories of William Faulkner. Forty-two stories, half of them good, half a dozen very good, by one of the best U.S. writers of his generation (TIME...
Collected Stories of William Faulkner...
Arson & Anguish. In the Collected Stones, Faulkner's blazing skill and lazy improvisations, his rich humor and corny folksiness, his deep sense of tragedy and tasteless gothic excesses are all brought together. About half a dozen stories are as good bits of fiction as have ever been written in the U.S.: Barn Burning, a poignant sketch of a boy's anguished love for his arsonist-father; A Rose for Emily, that hair-raising classic of a lady's decline to necrophilia; Wash, a magnificent portrait of a poor white who, after years of loyalty, rebels against...
...final impression left by Faulkner's work is that he is a writer of incomparable talents who has used and misused those talents superbly and recklessly. But his book has the excitement that comes from never knowing when, amidst pages of failure, there will come a masterpiece...