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It is likely that The Reivers was meant to be this "Golden Book". The Reivers was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Mark Rydell and starring Steve McQueen as Boon Hogganbeck. Plot
- William Faulkner
- 1962
The Reivers, a novel by William Faulkner, explores the role of race in the American South during the early 20th century. The story follows the adventures of a young boy named Lucius Priest, who embarks on a journey with his grandfather’s black servant, Boon Hogganbeck.
It is likely that The Reivers was meant to be this "Golden Book". The Reivers was adapted into a film of the same name directed by Mark Rydell and starring Steve McQueen as Boon Hogganbeck. Plot
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.
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The Reivers is the book William Faulkner anticipated in the Paris Review interview with Jean Stein in 1956: "My last book will be the Doomsday Book, the Golden Book, of Yoknapatawpha County.
"The Reivers" by William Faulkner is a classic novel set in the early 20th century American South. It tells the story of a young boy named Lucius Priest who embarks on a transformative journey with his grandfather and a family friend.
As the independent basis of the reception study, The Reivers receives its first ever detailed reading, while The Golden Ass is read anew from the teleological perspective offered by the (undervalued) prophecy that in the end the comic hero would become the book itself.
