Intruder in the Dust, William Faulkner
Intruder in the Dust, William Faulkner
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Intruder in the Dust

Author: William Faulkner

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/06/2007


Synopsis

A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man.

About The Author

William Faulkner was born in Mississippi in 1897. A legend of American letters, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, and many other works. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950, and died in 1962.


Reviews

I read this in part as a response to what happened in Ferguson, the murder of that young black man still in his first youth. The poverty and nth-class status of blacks in the south at the time this novel is set--the 1940s, just before the advent of MLK and the Civil Rights Movement--was harsh and Fa......more