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The Reivers

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The Reivers is a picaresque about three improbable automobile thieves from rural Mississippi, and it is one of Faulkner's humorous classics.

Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, persuades eleven-year-old Lucius Priest to take his grandfather's automobile and go to Memphis.

Ned McCaslin, the Priests' black coachman, stows away, and the three of them embark on a heroic quest for which they are entirely unprepared, culminating at Miss Reba's bordello in Memphis.

A series of bizarre events occurs, involving horse smugglers, trainmen, sheriff's deputies, and incarceration

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9394752455 / 9789394752450
Paperback / softback
24/05/2022
176 pages
127 x 203 mm, 198 grams
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