| The Reivers Contributor(s): Faulkner, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679741925 ISBN-13: 9780679741923 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1992 Annotation: This grand misadventure is the story of three unlikely thieves, or reivers: 11-year-old Lucius Priest and two of his family's retainers. In 1905, these three set out from Mississippi for Memphis in a stolen motorcar. The astonishing and complicated results reveal Faulkner as a master of the picaresque. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Gothic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92050095 |
| Lexile Measure: 970 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.75 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Memphis, Tennessee - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10844 Reading Level: 6.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 16.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |