William Faulkner: American Writer A Biography

By
Frederick R. Karl

Faber and Faber
London, England
1989

First American Edition also published in 1989 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
xvi, [2], 1131, [3] p.:16 unpaginated pages containing 29 illustrations; 24 cm. (9.5 inches). Dark brown cloth spine, with gilt-stamped spine title, burgundy paper over boards, with blind-stamped front-cover initials of the author. Glossy, color illustrated dust jacket, illustration by Keith Bowen. Includes Chronology, Notes, Index, and About the Author.
First British Edition

"William Faulkner is the most authoritative work yet written about one of America's most complex and fascinating literary figures and the author of some of this century's finest novels, among them The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August and Absalom, Absalom. Frederick R. Karl, author of the acclaimed Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives, looks at William Faulkner's life and work. He demonstrates the way in which Faulkner wove the cultural forces which played upon him - his southern heritage, his family, his marriage, his drinking, his relation with women - into a single imaginative pattern which gave birth both to the self-perpetuated myths surrounding him and the vivid multi-dimensional creations of his imagination" [from the dust jacket].

ISBN: 057114991X

Book is in Fine/As New Condition: pages bright, clean, tight, and unmarked.
Dust Jacket is in Near Fine Condition: light wear upper spine; both sections lightly rubbed. Nice copy!

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