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Original Title:	The Reivers
ISBN:	0679741925 (ISBN13: 9780679741923)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lucius Priest, Boon Hogganbeck, Ned McCaslin, Miss Corrie, Miss Reba
Setting:	Memphis, Tennessee(United States) Tennessee(United States) Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1963)

The Reivers

William Faulkner

Paperback | Pages: 305 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 6390 Users | 412 Reviews

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Title	:	The Reivers
Author	:	William Faulkner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Vintage International Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 305 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1992 by Vintage International (first published 1962)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics

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One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests' black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba's bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues--invoving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs' deputies, and jail.

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This is a tale of the Old South that is intended to be quaint and funny. However, it also contains enough reality of life from the early twentieth century to include segregation of the races, illegal gambling, prostitution, and car theft. Therefore, it's like a lot of funny storiesits funny as a story about adventures from the past, but in real life it has a dark side.The story is told in the voice of an old man in the early 1960s telling his grandson about adventures he experienced as an eleven

The automobile has come to the deep South and it causes the menfolk to lose their heads momentarily. They take a trip into the big city of Memphis, visit a whorehouse and get themselves neck deep in trouble. Somewhat ironically, because of a car, a horserace breaks out. In the midst of it all is our narrator, an 11-yer-old boy. There were times when Faulkner's usually enjoyable molasses-slow writing style combined in an unpleasant way with repetition, creating a bit of a bore of a book. I might

I find it interesting so many people found this book incomprehensible. This easily the *most* comprehensible of any of Faulkner's writings. It's also the most likable, the most charming, and the only one of his books I can say I honestly enjoyed all the way through. It's not as self-conscious, artsy, or convoluted as most of his other works, and because of that very thing, I'd say it offers more depth than even his "deep" books. Here, we actually find a cast of primarily likable characters whose

The former rector of our church recently died. She was a longtime William Faulkner lover and just couldn't stand the thought that she had read all his books. So she saved this one--his last, written in 1962 and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize--to read (or have read to her) on her deathbed, whenever that day came. Tragically, she died suddenly of a heart attack and never got to read it. A few of us at our church are reading it "for her." And she would have loved this book! So will you, especially

It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me. Lucius Priest is almost proud of his innocence, an innocence that is easy to maintain as long as he stays in Yoknapatawpha County Mississippi, but when two family retainers by the name of Boon Hogganbeck and Ned McCaslin decide to go on an adventure and convince him to be a part of their

Sometimes you want to read a book with grand theft auto, a horse race, prostitutes, sardines, a gold tooth, and a fight with a lawman, but then you think, "What will my hoity-toity friends think if I read a book like that?"You can read this book. It's got all that stuff, and it's a Faulkner book, so your hoity-toity friends can't say anything.

At my high school, they introduced us to Faulkner with SANCTUARY. I never returned to him until this summer, when somewhere or other I picked up a copy of this, Faulkner's last novel, published a month before he died in 1962. The following year, it won a Pulitzer, yet it is one of his least-known works. I am convinced this is the novel with which to introduce readers to Faulkner. It is set in the fictitious Yoknapatawpha County that is the setting of several of his novels, a landscape with a