num_pages: 400
description: One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family’s retainers, to steal his grandfather’s car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests’ black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba’s bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues—involving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs’ deputies, and jail.
language: English
title: The Reivers
titlecomplete: The Reivers
characters: Boon Hogganbeck, Ned McCaslin, Miss Corrie, Lucius Priest, Miss Reba
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Nobel Prize, Southern, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 7433
places: Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee
awards: awardedAt: -220896000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Garland Publishing, Inc.