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73 ratings, 3.41 average rating, 7 reviews
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published
December 1996
by Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Paperback, 315 pages
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0871401665
(isbn13: 9780871401663)
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Read in January, 2004
I read this because I was compelled by my passion for Faulkner's work to begin at the beginning-- I'm as curious about an author's personal history as I am about his books. Faulkner claimed to be a fighter pilot in WWI, although historical records make it seem as if he never saw action. I think his fighter pilot fantasy was enfleshed in the Sartoris epics, while this story illuminates a war and homecoming still very fresh in young Faulkner's consciousness. His description of Donald's deteriora...more
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Read in March, 2007
Stunning work by Faulkner, such clarity of dialogue he barely needs to describe surroundings. But when he does it's fantastic. Wounded soldier comes home with a major injury and with the ensuing happenings around him. I wish I could delv into it more and maybe will update this review at some point, but at the moment it's my second favourite book. A book that I want to have written.
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Read in January, 2001
It's Faulkner, what more needs to be said? Ok, its soldiers returning from war on a train.
"What can equal a mother’s love? Except a good drink of whiskey"
Thats bourbon, by the way not scotch or irish whisky.
"The saddest thing about love too is that not only the love cannot last for ever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."
"What can equal a mother’s love? Except a good drink of whiskey"
Thats bourbon, by the way not scotch or irish whisky.
"The saddest thing about love too is that not only the love cannot last for ever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."
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Easier to understand than much Faulkner's other work. This short novel is a romance. I haven't done much research on Faulkner's body of work, but this feels like one of his earlier works. If you have never read him before, start somewhere else, because the tone of this one is different from much of his other work.
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Read in January, 2008
F's first published novel. Kind of putrescent, although later his editor rejected 'Flags in the Dust' because it wasn't as good as 'Soldier's Pay.'
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Read in December, 2006
Hard to follow at first (go figure) but a really good first novel. Somehow still relevant 70-80 years later.
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