This novel of Mississippi hill country life depicts some of the more troubling and unpublicized aspects of the New Deal by tracing the fortunes of the Taylor family, sharecroppers who move to town to work for the "WP and A," the Works Progress Administration.
John Faulkner, a one-time WPA project engineer, has much to satirize in this broadly comic novel. First and foremost are the Taylors: exasperating and unemployable, they are unaccountably abiding; hopelessly destitute, they place a higher premium on a new radio than on food and shelter. Faulkner also casts a sardonic eye on the town merchants, who extend credit to WPA workers as quickly as they inflate prices, and, of course, on the WPA itself, an agency that entices naive, desperate country folk with the promise of a dole―only to lay them off and then ignore them.
In his foreword, Trent Watts establishes the singularity of Men Working while noting in it echoes of Tobacco Road, As I Lay Dying, and The Grapes of Wrath. Watts also identifies in John Faulkner's tone an ambivalence shared by many southerners who witnessed the changes wrought by "progress" upon their traditional way of life.

Men Working (Brown Thrasher Books)

Literature & Fiction

Faulkner, John

Humor & Satire

University of Georgia Press

This is the first comprehensive book on natural history in the nine-county province of Ulster - a subject that has been remarkably overlooked in such an otherwise well-exposed region. Nature in Ulster is uniquely varied and reveals much about how humanity relates to the natural world. The heart of the book deals with the habitats that characterize Ulster's landscapes: farmland and woodland, bogs, mountains and lakes, the coast, the sea, and urban habitats. Contributions from some of Ulster's most experienced naturalists have been carefully brought together to produce an engaging narrative. The book is profusely illustrated with over 600 high quality photographs.

The Natural History of Ulster

Science & Math

THOMPSON, ROBERT

Nature & Ecology

Blackstaff Pr

Perhaps no one knew the intensely private William Faulkner better than his brother John. At the time of Bill's funeral, a reporter remarked that seeing John walking the streets of Oxford, Mississippi, was like encountering the ghost of his brother. Indeed John and Bill were mirrors of one another in many ways. In this memoir we find an intimate and at times humorous portrait of the Faulkner brothers from childhood through adulthood. John provides a keen view of the local characters and situations that Bill later used in his novels, including such classics as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom! My Brother Bill was first published in 1963, the year following William Faulkner's death. This edition includes seventeen photographs and a foreword by Jimmy Faulkner, son of the author and nephew of the subject.

My Brother Bill

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Yoknapatawpha Pr

Men Working

Dollar Cotton

Perhaps no one knew the intensely private William Faulkner better than his brother John. At the time of Bill's funeral, a reporter remarked that seeing John walking the streets of Oxford, Mississippi, was like encountering the ghost of his brother. Indeed John and Bill were mirrors of one another in many ways. In this memoir we find an intimate and at times humorous portrait of William and his brothers from childhood through adulthood. John provides a keen view of the local characters and situations that Bill later used in his novels. John provides us a rare look into the soul of the Nobel Prize-winning author of such classics as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom! My Brother Bill was first published in 1963, the year following William Faulkner's death. This edition includes seventeen photographs and a foreword by Jimmy Faulkner, son of the author and nephew of the subject (whom he knew as Brother Will).

My Brother Bill: An Affectionate Reminiscence

Literary Licensing, LLC

Perhaps no one knew the intensely private William Faulkner better than his brother John. At the time of Bill's funeral, a reporter remarked that seeing John walking the streets of Oxford, Mississippi, was like encountering the ghost of his brother. Indeed John and Bill were mirrors of one another in many ways. In this memoir we find an intimate and at times humorous portrait of the Faulkner brothers from childhood through adulthood. John provides a keen view of the local characters and situations that Bill later used in his novels, including such classics as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom! My Brother Bill was first published in 1963, the year following William Faulkner's death. This edition includes seventeen photographs and a foreword by Jimmy Faulkner, son of the author and nephew of the subject.

Univ of South Carolina Pr

Of all Australia's political parties, Labor has sat in both Houses in every parliament since federation. It predates Federation and has upheld its presence in every state and territory parliament since federation. Since 1901, Australian politics has pivoted on one central idea: Labor or anti-Labor. This volume presents the unfolding story of 607 men and women who have made up the federal Labor Caucus. It is a story of a century of change, the building of a nation through war and peace, economic depression and expansion, migration and development.

True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party

Politics & Social Sciences

MacIntyre, Stuart

Politics & Government

Allen& Unwin

Perhaps no one knew the intensely private William Faulkner better than his brother John. At the time of Bill's funeral, a reporter remarked that seeing John walking the streets of Oxford, Mississippi was like encountering the ghost of his brother. Indeed, John and Bill were mirrors of one another in many ways. In this memoir we find an intimate and at times humorous portrait of William and his brothers from childhood through adulthood. John provides a keen view of the local characters and situations which Bill later used in his novels.

My Brother Bill (Hill Street Classics)

UNKNO

Dollar Cotton is the story of Otis Town, a colorful character only a Faulkner could invent. A poor Tennessee farmer who leaves his home for the Mississippi Delta, where fertile land is cheap and hopes are plenty, he tears a cotton plantation out of the land and builds an empire, only to see it all wither away when the price of cotton plummets.Refusing to accept his condition, he travels to New York to confront the president of the Stock Exchange, and tragedy ensues.Described as "a classic tale about hard work and dreams, about the triumph and failure of man, and endurance on the land," the reassurance of John Faulkner's Dollar Cotton will offer a new generation of readers a look at this particular slice of southern life.

United States

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Men Working (Brown Thrasher Books)

The Natural History of Ulster

My Brother Bill

Men Working

Dollar Cotton

My Brother Bill: An Affectionate Reminiscence

My Brother Bill

True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party

My Brother Bill (Hill Street Classics)

Dollar Cotton