MARCH 2023 - AudioFile
During a train trip to Georgia, WWI veterans, deftly portrayed by narrator Adam Barr, experience continued grief and trauma. Soldier Mahon suffers the most hideous and heinous wounds. As a small circle of supporters surrounds him, escorting him home, Barr portrays the most notable characters, especially Joe and Mrs. Powers, with exceptional skill. Mahon holds onto the possibility of a life with his fiancée even though he has disfigurement that may taint her love. Barr inhabits the lives and souls of these mismatched characters with humanity and compassion. The novel employs some of the same narrative gymnastics explored in Faulkner's later work. This is a fine introduction to his literary prowess, and Barr makes it the best way to enjoy the journey. R.O. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine
Louis Kronenberger
A rich compound of imagination, observation, and experience. In an isolated world of Faulkner's own making, shadows having the reality of men grope through a maze complex enough to be at once pitiful and comic, passionate, tormenting, and strange.
—Literary Digest
1926 New York Times
A deft hand has woven this narrative of mixed and frustrated emotions and has set it down with hard intellegence as well as consummate pity. This book rings true.”
From the Publisher
"This book rings true." —The New York Times
"Comic, passionate, tormenting, and strange." —Literary Digest
"Moving and intense. The story alone is a gem, but for deeper things that lie back of the mere plot the book is likely to become a classic." —St. Louis Globe-Democrat
MARCH 2023 - AudioFile
During a train trip to Georgia, WWI veterans, deftly portrayed by narrator Adam Barr, experience continued grief and trauma. Soldier Mahon suffers the most hideous and heinous wounds. As a small circle of supporters surrounds him, escorting him home, Barr portrays the most notable characters, especially Joe and Mrs. Powers, with exceptional skill. Mahon holds onto the possibility of a life with his fiancée even though he has disfigurement that may taint her love. Barr inhabits the lives and souls of these mismatched characters with humanity and compassion. The novel employs some of the same narrative gymnastics explored in Faulkner's later work. This is a fine introduction to his literary prowess, and Barr makes it the best way to enjoy the journey. R.O. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine
