In many ways this was an experimental novel, using several differing narrative styles. Divided into four parts, the author relates the same episodes from four different viewpoints, using a different style for each. The story concerns various members of a Southern family, once wealthy landowners but now struggling to maintain their reputation.
The sound and the fury
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337 pages
English language
Published 1977 by Franklin Library.
Subjects
- People with mental disabilities -- Fiction
- African American women cooks -- Fiction
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- Illegitimate children -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Mississippi -- Fiction