{"product_id":"the-town-paperback","title":"The Town - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Faulkner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South. Like its predecessor, \u003ci\u003eThe Hamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, and its successor, \u003ci\u003eThe Mansion, The Town\u003c\/i\u003e is completely self-contained, but it gains resonance from being read with the other two. The story of Flem Snopes's ruthless struggle to take over the town of Jefferson, Mississippi, the book is rich in typically Faulknerian episodes of humor and profundity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. His family was rooted in local history: his great-grandfather, a Confederate colonel and state politician, was assassinated by a former partner in 1889, and his grandfather was a wealth lawyer who owned a railroad. When Faulkner was five his parents moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where he received a desultory education in local schools, dropping out of high school in 1915. Rejected for pilot training in the U.S. Army, he passed himself off as British and joined the Canadian Royal Air Force in 1918, but the war ended before he saw any service. After the war, he took some classes at the University of Mississippi and worked for a time at the university post office. Mostly, however, he educated himself by reading promiscuously. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFaulkner had begun writing poems when he was a schoolboy, and in 1924 he published a poetry collection, \u003cb\u003eThe Marble Faun\u003c\/b\u003e, at his own expense. His literary aspirations were fueled by his close friendship with Sherwood Anderson, whom he met during a stay in New Orleans. Faulkner's first novel, \u003cb\u003eSoldier's Pay\u003c\/b\u003e, was published in 1926, followed a year later by \u003cb\u003eMosquitoes\u003c\/b\u003e, a literary satire. His next book, \u003cb\u003eFlags in the Dust\u003c\/b\u003e, was heavily cut and rearranged at the publisher's insistence and appeared finally as \u003cb\u003eSartoris\u003c\/b\u003e in 1929. In the meantime he had completed \u003cb\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/b\u003e, and when it appeared at the end of 1929 he had finished \u003cb\u003eSanctuary\u003c\/b\u003e and was ready to begin writing \u003cb\u003eAs I Lay Dying\u003c\/b\u003e. That same year he married Estelle Oldham, whom he had courted a decade earlier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough Faulkner gained literary acclaim from these and subsequent novels--\u003cb\u003eLight in August\u003c\/b\u003e (1932), \u003cb\u003ePylon\u003c\/b\u003e (1935), \u003cb\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/b\u003e (1936), \u003cb\u003eThe Unvanquished\u003c\/b\u003e (1938), \u003cb\u003eThe Wild Palms\u003c\/b\u003e (1939), \u003cb\u003eThe Hamlet\u003c\/b\u003e (1940), and \u003cb\u003eGo Down, Moses\u003c\/b\u003e (1942)--and continued to publish stories regularly in magazines, he was unable to support himself solely by writing fiction. he worked as a screenwriter for MGM, Twentieth Century-Fox, and Warner Brothers, forming a close relationship with director Howard Hawks, with whom he worked on \u003cb\u003eTo Have and Have Not\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Big Sleep\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eLand of the Pharaohs\u003c\/b\u003e, among other films. In 1944 all but one of Faulkner's novels were out of print, and his personal life was at low ebb due in part to his chronic heavy drinking. During the war he had been discovered by Sartre and Camus and others in the French literary world. In the postwar period his reputation rebounded, as Malcolm Cowley's anthology \u003cb\u003eThe Portable Faulkner\u003c\/b\u003e brought him fresh attention in America, and the immense esteem in which he was held in Europe consolidated his worldwide stature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFaulkner wrote seventeen books set in the mythical Yoknapatawpha County, home of the Compson family in \u003cb\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/b\u003e. \"No land in all fiction lives more vividly in its physical presence than this county of Faulkner's imagination,\" Robert Penn Warren wrote in an essay on Cowley's anthology. \"The descendants of the old families, the descendants of bushwhackers and carpetbaggers, the swamp rats, the Negro cooks and farm hands, the bootleggers and gangsters, tenant farmers, college boys, county-seat lawyers, country storekeepers, peddlers--all are here in their fullness of life and their complicated interrelations.\" In 1950, Faulkner traveled to Sweden to accept the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. In later books--\u003cb\u003eIntruder in the Dust\u003c\/b\u003e (1948), \u003cb\u003eRequiem for a Nun\u003c\/b\u003e (1951), \u003cb\u003eA Fable\u003c\/b\u003e (1954), \u003cb\u003eThe Town\u003c\/b\u003e (1957), \u003cb\u003eThe Mansion\u003c\/b\u003e (1959), and \u003cb\u003eThe Reivers\u003c\/b\u003e (1962)--he continued to explore what he had called \"the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself,\" but did so in the context of Yoknapatawpha's increasing connection with the modern world. He died of a heart attack on July 6, 1962.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 8.04 x 5.31 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Town\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6.7\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 21\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227198374137,"sku":"9780307946812","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/vXgYJPj97z9780307946812.webp?v=1768278935","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-town-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}