Intruder In The Dust
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Damaged - split; chipped and worn. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding: Binding intact, no loose pages; faded spine.
In the racially charged American South, William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust chronicles the desperate fight to save Lucas Beauchamp, a proud Black man wrongfully accused of murdering a white man in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Seen through the eyes of sixteen-year-old Chick Mallison, the novel uncovers the simmering tensions, ingrained prejudices, and moral complexities of a community teetering on the edge of justice — and mob violence. Faulkner presents the American South not merely as a setting, but as a living, breathing character — one burdened by history, honour, and the suffocating weight of racial hierarchy. His characteristically dense, stream-of-consciousness prose demands active engagement, rewarding readers with a profound moral reckoning that remains urgently relevant; one is left wondering whether justice, in Faulkner's world, is ever truly blind — or always coloured by the dust of the past.
Author: William Faulkner
Format: Hardback
Published: 1951, Chatto & Windus
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: 3rd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: Damaged - split; chipped and worn. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning and foxing. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding: Binding intact, no loose pages; faded spine.
In the racially charged American South, William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust chronicles the desperate fight to save Lucas Beauchamp, a proud Black man wrongfully accused of murdering a white man in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Seen through the eyes of sixteen-year-old Chick Mallison, the novel uncovers the simmering tensions, ingrained prejudices, and moral complexities of a community teetering on the edge of justice — and mob violence. Faulkner presents the American South not merely as a setting, but as a living, breathing character — one burdened by history, honour, and the suffocating weight of racial hierarchy. His characteristically dense, stream-of-consciousness prose demands active engagement, rewarding readers with a profound moral reckoning that remains urgently relevant; one is left wondering whether justice, in Faulkner's world, is ever truly blind — or always coloured by the dust of the past.