Faulkner is notoriously a 'difficult' writer to study,
especially for first-time readers. This Literature
Insight begins with three chapters clearly setting out
the important facts of his life, mapping the people
and history of his recurrent fictional setting,
Yoknapatawpha County, and analysing the oddities
and problems of his prose style. Later chapters turn
directly to his great novel 'Go Down, Moses' and his
later collection 'Big Woods', dealing in detail with
each story and the intertexts and showing how they
connect and add up to something much more than
loose collections. Readers new to Faulkner will find
it a very helpful introduction to his world, and those
already familiar with him a valuable resource.
