num_pages: 288
description: With THE REIVERS Faulkner offers the reader high comedy in a tale of three Mississippi travellers in Memphis. Set in the first years of this century, the book explores the contradictions of a society at the crossroads of the modern age, traditional but still vigourous, combining old-world politeness with brutality.
language: English
title: The Reivers
titlecomplete: The Reivers
characters: Lucius Priest, Ned McCaslin, Miss Corrie, Boon Hogganbeck, Miss Reba
genres: Fiction, American, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, Southern, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 7433
places: Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
awards: awardedAt: -220896000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage