Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner

Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner

Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, Intruder in the Dust is the novel that marks the final phase of its author's outstanding creative period. The chronicle of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and under threat from the lynch mob is a characteristically Faulknerian tale of dark omen, its sole ray of hope the character of the young white boy who repays an old favour by proving the innocence of the man who saved him from drowning in an icy creek.

A work of timeless importance * New York Times *
He has written a novel which in form is a thriller - and a very good thriller too - but this without distracting from its profundity * New Statesman *
There is an extraordinary vigor and power in his writing, a feverish urge toward description in which words combine in a dense web of meaning * Chicago Tribune *
The greatest American writers of the last century were William Faulkner and Saul Bellow -- Philip Roth
In a single brief decade, Faulkner had produced more lasting works of fiction than many great writers do in a lifetime * Guardian *

Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank.

Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925.

His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler.

William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962.

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ISBN 13	9780099740315
ISBN 10	0099740311
Title	Intruder in the Dust
Author	William Faulkner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	1996-08-08
Number of pages	256
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