Word: faulknerian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after his first novel, Soldiers' Pay, the story plots the origins of the Snopes family, who were to form the center of his Yoknapatawpha County trilogy (The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion). Father Abraham, which was the start of a never finished novel, has been known to Faulknerian scholars for years. But curiously, no one had ever transcribed his intricate handwriting until the Red Ozier Press decided to bring out a limited edition of the work. The delay in publication was not caused by the manuscript's quality. According to University of South Carolina Professor James...
...small town with "no main roads" and where the only industry is peanut farming, Leary is a community of "men who hunt on land that their grandfathers had hunted on--it's kind of Faulknerian." The backwoods town is a "very racist kind of society," where Blacks until 15 years ago "were kept in a kind of serfdom by a family that kind of ruled them...