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–involving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs’ deputies, and jail.
Author: William Faulkner
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/01/1992
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780679741923
Language: English
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