Faulkner's Mississippi
by: Morris, Willie (text); William Eggleston (photographs)

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, Oxmoor House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 154 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. With excerpts from Sanctuary, The Faulkner Reader, As I Lay Dying, The Unvanquished, Light in August, Essays, Go Down, Moses; Absalom, Absalom!; and the exceptional writing style of editor/novelist Willie Morris, this work reveals the textures of Faulkner's Mississippi--cultural, linguistic, and social--making an exceptional commentary on southern life. Morris accomplishes the task of seizing and capturing the imagination of the reader. This image is heightened by the stark, often haunting photographs of Eggleston which combines the reality of Mississippi's landscape with an almost spiritual journey through Faulkner's mystical Yoknapatawpha County.