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.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, Intruder in the Dust is one of William Faulkner's most morally urgent novels, published in 1948. The story chronicles the plight of Lucas Beauchamp, a proud and dignified Black man falsely accused of murdering a white man in the American Deep South, who must rely on an unlikely alliance — a white teenage boy, an elderly spinster, and a young Black boy — to uncover the truth before a mob takes justice into its own hands. Faulkner constructs a searing indictment of Southern racial prejudice, weaving courtroom tension with a meditation on guilt, honour, and the burden of history. Written with Faulkner's characteristically dense and rhythmic prose, the novel presents a community forced to confront its own moral failures. Intruder in the Dust stands as a landmark of American literature, as powerful and unsettling today as when it was first written.
Author: William Faulkner
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, Intruder in the Dust is one of William Faulkner's most morally urgent novels, published in 1948. The story chronicles the plight of Lucas Beauchamp, a proud and dignified Black man falsely accused of murdering a white man in the American Deep South, who must rely on an unlikely alliance — a white teenage boy, an elderly spinster, and a young Black boy — to uncover the truth before a mob takes justice into its own hands. Faulkner constructs a searing indictment of Southern racial prejudice, weaving courtroom tension with a meditation on guilt, honour, and the burden of history. Written with Faulkner's characteristically dense and rhythmic prose, the novel presents a community forced to confront its own moral failures. Intruder in the Dust stands as a landmark of American literature, as powerful and unsettling today as when it was first written.