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Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
In the backwoods of Mississippi, Jewel and her husband, Leston, are blessed with five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last-born and most welcome. But an unforseen event can set a life on a course without reason or compass, and this is the story of Jewel's devotion to a child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling upon her.
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Language
English
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage International Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The members of a genteel southern family are portrayed as petty failures, drunkards, suicides, pathological perverts, and idiots.
The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County, through the interior monologues of the idiot Benjy and his brothers, Quentin and Jason.
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