A short novel, grown out of an early cycle of Faulkner’s stories: the writer returned to these texts for years, rewriting them and bringing separate episodes together into a single narrative.
Seven stories about life in the tiny town of Yoknapatawpha during the years of the Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction of the South. They are told by Bayard Sartoris—who, as he grows up, changes from an enthusiastic boy into a young man entering adulthood. These are stories about amusing pranks, friendship, love, and death; about a war the Southerners cannot bring themselves to forget and, despite everything, continue to regard themselves as undefeated in.