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The Reivers: A Reminiscence, published in 1962, is the last novel by the American author William Faulkner. It was published a month before his death. The bestselling novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963. Faulkner previously won this award for his book A Fable, making him one of only four authors to be awarded it more than ...
The Reivers (also known as The Yellow Winton Flyer in the U.K.) [3] is a 1969 Technicolor film in Panavision starring Steve McQueen and directed by Mark Rydell, based on the 1962 William Faulkner novel The Reivers, a Reminiscence. [4]
In 1961, Faulkner began writing his nineteenth and final novel, The Reivers. The novel is a nostalgic reminiscence, in which an elderly grandfather relates a humorous episode in which he and two boys stole a car to drive to a Memphis bordello. In summer 1961, he finished the first draft. [71]
First novel since Mosquitoes not to be set in Yoknapatawpha County. [3] 1936 Absalom, Absalom! Random House A foreword to the novel by author John Jeremiah Sullivan has been included in the Modern Library edition of the novel published in April 2012. Second novel featuring Quentin Compson, after The Sound and the Fury. [7] 1938 The Unvanquished ...
He directed Steve McQueen in The Reivers (1969). Rydell and friend Sydney Pollack, who had known each other since they were both actors, formed a company, Sanford Productions, and signed a six picture contract with the Mirisch Brothers. [10] They planned to make Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff, which was eventually made in 1979 by other filmmakers.
First edition cover. Deeper Into Movies is a collection of 1969 to 1972 movie reviews by American film critic Pauline Kael, published by Little, Brown and Company in 1973. It was the fourth collection of her columns; these were originally published in The New Yorker.
Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936.Taking place before, during, and after the American Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen.
The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957, about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. It is the second of the "Snopes" trilogy, following The Hamlet (1940) and completed by The Mansion (1959).