
Intruder in the Dust
Author: William Faulkner
Narrator: Scott Brick
Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 11/06/2007
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Author: William Faulkner
Narrator: Scott Brick
Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 11/06/2007
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
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.
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