Soldiers' Pay (Vintage International)

William Faulkner

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Publication Date: August 15th, 2023

Publisher:

Vintage

ISBN:

9780593470961

Pages:

352

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Description

William Faulkner's first novel is one of the most compelling works of American fiction to emerge from the First World War.

A wounded veteran's homecoming is at the center of Faulkner's first novel. Badly scarred in body and mind, and unable to remember much, Donald Mahon is brought home at the end of the World War I by a fellow soldier and a young war widow they befriend on the train. Mahon's arrival is a shock to his hometown, however, for he had long since been reported dead. His flighty young fiancee is caught between her revulsion at his condition and her sense of duty, while Mahon's father greets his unexpected survival first with joy and then with a determined denial of what his grievous injuries mean. As events unfold, alliances are formed and broken, sacrifices are made, and Faulkner deftly invests his heartbreaking tale with some of the deeper themes that would come to mark his later masterpieces.

About the Author

WILLIAM FAULKNER was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom!, among many other remarkable books. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1949 and France’s Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.

Praise for Soldiers' Pay (Vintage International)

"This book rings true." —The New York Times

"Comic, passionate, tormenting, and strange." —Literary Digest

"Moving and intense. The story alone is a gem, but for deeper things that lie back of the mere plot the book is likely to become a classic." —St. Louis Globe-Democrat