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By Songa Lamut

In 1989, the Caribbean writer Edouard Glissant visited Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's home in Oxford, Mississippi. His visit spurred him to write a revelatory book about the work of one of our greatest but still least-understood American writers. "A fascinating way to read Faulkner. . . .[Glissant's] case is nothing less than that, no matter how Faulkner's personal Furies twisted his public speech, Faulkner was a great, world-beating multiculturalist."-Jonathan Levi, Los Angeles Times Book Review "A sharp, challenging, and wholly unique tour of Yoknapatawpha County." - Kirkus Reviews "Passionate. . . . Glissant's prose sometimes vies with Faulkner's for intricacy and evocative nuance." -Scott McLemee, Newsday "Glissant tries to engage Faulkner on many fronts simultaneously, positioning himself as a critic, a fellow artist and as a descendant of slaves. . . He makes a convincing case that Faulkner is not just another 'dead white male author.'"-Scott Yarbrough, Raleigh News & Observer "[An] ambitious and, at times, rambunctious expedition into Yoknapatawpha County." -Christine Schwartz Hartley, New York Times Book Review

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0448416336
• ISBN13: 9780448416335
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Length: 12 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 1 to 4 years
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher