Faulkner: A Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears, Chipped and worn with some minor damage on corners and spine folds. Page Condition: Good. Markings: bookseller's stamps on feps. Two-volume set with dust jackets intact.
Few American writers have lived as richly and as contradictorily as William Faulkner — Nobel laureate, Hollywood screenwriter, fox hunter, and architect of an entire fictional county in Mississippi. Joseph Blotner's monumental two-volume biography chronicles the full arc of Faulkner's extraordinary life, from his boyhood in Oxford, Mississippi, through his turbulent personal relationships, his struggles with alcohol, and his relentless literary ambition, to the international acclaim that finally confirmed him as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Blotner, a personal friend and colleague of Faulkner's at the University of Virginia, brings unparalleled intimacy and scholarly rigour to this exhaustive portrait, drawing on private letters, interviews, and previously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a work of biography that matches its subject in scope and seriousness — illuminating the creative processes behind The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom! while mapping the restless, contradictory soul that produced them. For anyone who has ever been seized by Faulkner's prose, this biography raises a question that lingers long after the final page: how much of Yoknapatawpha County was fiction, and how much was confession?
Author: Joseph Blotner
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Random House
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears, Chipped and worn with some minor damage on corners and spine folds. Page Condition: Good. Markings: bookseller's stamps on feps. Two-volume set with dust jackets intact.
Few American writers have lived as richly and as contradictorily as William Faulkner — Nobel laureate, Hollywood screenwriter, fox hunter, and architect of an entire fictional county in Mississippi. Joseph Blotner's monumental two-volume biography chronicles the full arc of Faulkner's extraordinary life, from his boyhood in Oxford, Mississippi, through his turbulent personal relationships, his struggles with alcohol, and his relentless literary ambition, to the international acclaim that finally confirmed him as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Blotner, a personal friend and colleague of Faulkner's at the University of Virginia, brings unparalleled intimacy and scholarly rigour to this exhaustive portrait, drawing on private letters, interviews, and previously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a work of biography that matches its subject in scope and seriousness — illuminating the creative processes behind The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom! while mapping the restless, contradictory soul that produced them. For anyone who has ever been seized by Faulkner's prose, this biography raises a question that lingers long after the final page: how much of Yoknapatawpha County was fiction, and how much was confession?