My Brother Bill

By John Faulkner

Book Overview

Perhaps no one knew the intensely private William Faulkner better than his brother John. At the time of Bill's funeral, a reporter remarked that seeing John walking the streets of Oxford, Mississippi... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B003HF61BW
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: Pocket Book
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The best description of Southern society and culture.

John Faulkner succeeded capturing the South better than any author I have read. I grew up near his location and in a family with the same moral and cultural values of his. His family could have been mine. If you want to travel to the South that used to be, that our families helped build after the Civil War and before Korea this is the best way I know to do it. His frugal use of words and his short sentences only add to the authenticity of his descriptions. For those of us from there he brings to life,as none other, what used to be and is to never be again.

Classic, you don't know Faulkner until you've read this book

A wonderful stylist, John tells the intimate story of the Faulkner family that no biographer or academic could. You simply don't know Faulkner until you've read this book.