{"product_id":"the-saddest-words-by-michael-gorra-9781631491702","title":"The Saddest Words","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShould we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1897 in Mississippi, Faulkner wrote such iconic novels as \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e, creating in Yoknapatawpha County the richest gallery of characters in American fiction, his achievements culminating in the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut given his works' echo of “Lost Cause” romanticism, his depiction of black characters and black speech, and his rendering of race relations in a largely unreconstructed South, Faulkner demands a sobering reevaluation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInterweaving biography, absorbing literary criticism, and rich travelogue, \u003ci\u003eThe Saddest Words\u003c\/i\u003e recontextualizes Faulkner, revealing a civil war within him, while examining the most plangent cultural issues facing American literature today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471827124460,"sku":"9781631491702","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3e9a6ddf9a34f463ca9906f77811ec89.jpg?v=1775694239","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-saddest-words-by-michael-gorra-9781631491702","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}