num_pages: 404
description: Faulkner's great comic novel moves on the wheels of breathless suspense. Lucius Priest, Boon Hogganbeck, and Ned McCaslin "borrow" Lucius grandfather's automobile at the beginning of a hilarious journey that pales in comparison to what awaits the reivers (plunderers or freebooters) in Memphis. Ned trades the auto for a most dubious racehorse. How the reivers grapple with the crisis is the mainspring of the story which leads from a brothel to a brush with the law to the most bizarre horse racing in fact or fiction!The wild humor and the frenetic action will not, however, obscure to the listener that "The Reivers," like all of Faulkner's work, is about moving and tender human relationships and moral insights into human conduct.
language: English
title: The Reivers, Vol. 2: Typescript Setting Copy
titlecomplete: The Reivers, Vol. 2: Typescript Setting Copy (William Faulkner Manuscripts, No. 22)
characters: Boon Hogganbeck, Lucius Priest, Miss Corrie, Ned McCaslin, Miss Reba
genres: Classics, Southern, Fiction, Nobel Prize, Humor, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 7433
places: Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
awards: awardedAt: -220896000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Garland Publishing, Inc.