Pulitzer Prize Fiction Winner
The Reivers
by William Faulkner
Summary
In Yoknapatawpha County in 1905, an eleven year old boy joins a family servant and a roguish handyman in commandeering his grandfather's automobile for an unsanctioned trip to Memphis. Faulkner adopts a warm, reminiscent first person voice and a comic picaresque shape, treating boyhood transgression as a rite of passage rather than a tragedy. It is the most genial and accessible of his major novels and an unusual valedictory for his Mississippi cycle.
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Historical Context & Significance
A posthumous win for Faulkner. It is one of his most accessible and lighthearted works, contrasting sharply with his earlier, darker tragedies.