Thinking of Home: William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925

by William Faulkner

James G. Watson (Editor)

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"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home," says Darl Bundren in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. How much Faulkner himself is speaking may be suggested by this moving collection of nearly 150 letters. Written during his twenties, these letters describe Faulkner's first encounters with the North ("...I made my first subway trip yesterday. The experience showed me that we are not descended from monkeys, as some say, but from lice."); his brief World War I military service, which grew in the retelling; the productive New Orleans months with Sherwood Anderson; and...Read more
  • ISBN10 0393321231
  • ISBN13 9780393321234
  • Publish Date 14 March 2001 (first published 17 December 1991)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 29 October 2003
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint WW Norton & Co
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 232
  • Language English