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Home from the Hill is notable for its firm evocation of small-town attitudes. Like Faulkner, Humphrey knows that customs, especially Southern customs, are as important as life itself, and that to flout them can mean inviting death. Unlike Faulkner, he can unravel fabrics of suspicion, deceit, envy, love and hatred without getting the strands into a seemingly unmanageable snarl. His fine hunting scenes create a nostalgia for a vanishing side of U.S. life, and the crash of Theron Hunnicutt's ideals marks the passing of a Southern code of conduct. A book that a bit too plainly shows...
...TOWN, by William Faulkner. The malignant, unsavory Snopeses taking over Yoknapatawpha County from the noble old families who once controlled it and gave it graciousness. Intricate and convoluted as the book is in plot and in sentence, Faulkner gives it the air of a sly village idiot's barbershop yarn...
...lamp, they were as white as sugar. The extravagant foliage which had been wrought into them by machinery showed even more sharply white where the light touched, and elsewhere was black in the limp cloth." These scenes were meant to be inserted in the story's sequence a la Faulkner, but Agee died before he did it and the editors have wisely chosen to print them as prologues to the book's sections rather than insert them without...
Died. Elizabeth ("Betty") Faulkner Henderson, 82, uninhibited café-society showoff ("I'll relax and behave myself for three days after my wake"), thrice-married widow (her last: Oklahoma Oilman Frank C. Henderson) who once (1947) hoisted a thin-shanked, 72-year-old leg onto a table at the Metropolitan Opera House bar ("What's Marlene Dietrich got that I ain't got?") and gloated in her success as every tabloid spread the exhibit across the nation (East German propaganda displayed it as a sign of "Life in America" degeneracy); of the infirmities of age; in Manhattan...
...Asked, along with other U.S. writers, to wire protests to the U.N., Novelist William Faulkner refused, adding: "Any time we stop hollering and instead organize a posse to penetrate the Iron Curtain to try to tear down a jail and save one innocent victim, I will make...