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In this book the author recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never convicted murderers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel prize winner arguably the most important American novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her family, in particular her uncle William or Pappy with whom she shared colorful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences. This memoir explores the close relationship between Dean's uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty eight during an air show four months before she was born. It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Dean's tragic death, William helped to raise his niece. He paid for her education, gave her away when she was married, and maintained a unique relationship with her throughout his life. From the 1920s to the early civil rights era, from Faulkner's winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature to his death in 1962, this work explores the changing culture and society of Oxford, Mississippi, while offering a rare glimpse of a notoriously private family and an indelible portrait of a national treasure. -- From Book jacket.… (meer)
Every Day by the Sun (Crown, 2011) is a touching, deeply personal family memoir written by William Faulkner's niece, Dean Faulkner Wells. The author is the daughter of William's youngest brother (also Dean), but due to her father's untimely death in a plane crash it was William ("Pappy") who served as the major father figure in her life.
Both humorous and heart-wrenching, this is an unwhitewashed look at the private life and family history of the famously-private Faulkner clan. Dean doesn't spare the details of her and her family's struggles, from her abusive stepfather to William's alcoholism and affairs, to her grandmother's casual racism. But the book is mostly given to her fond memories of Pappy and his mother (Nannie), clearly two people she loved very much, and the anecdotes and stories she shares come from a perspective no one else can offer.
Very much worth a read as an example of family memoir, or just as a good book. ( )
A delightful memoir written by William Faulkner's niece, Dean Faulkner Wells, who just died last year. She and her second husband founded and ran Yoknapatawpha Press, a small regional publishing house named for Faulkner's fictional county. Her book is mainly about her growing up within the Faulkner clan, and while she does not leave out the darker elements of Bill and Estelle's binging and fighting; his endless affairs with young women, or Dean's own mother's abusive second marriage, she doesn't talk about any of those things in much detail either. Her goal, clearly, was to preserve and share her memories of good times and beloved people, one of whom just happened to be pretty famous. From the moment of her birth, four months after her father died in a plane crash, little Dean Faulkner was surrounded by loving grandparents, uncles and aunts, who were all determined to give her the best life possible. Foremost among them, her Uncle Bill (who she and many others in the family called "Pappy") vowed to take care of her, make her happy, and stand in her father's place whenever necessary. The book is full of bits and pieces of treasure---family lore, the laughing moments, the warm and fuzzy bits. Some stories I've heard before, but many more have not been told in all the Faulkner biographies I've read. Ms. Wells had a gift for bringing people to life, and in this short volume has made William Faulkner's wife Estelle a living, breathing, likeable person. I can't recall any of his biographers even having taken a stab at that. If you know next to nothing about Faulkner, you could do much worse than to begin your acquaintance with Every Day by the Sun. And if you've already met, take Ellen Gilchrist's advice and "Burn the deconstructionists' texts", read this book and then read Go Down, Moses, Sartoris and The Reivers (the last two are my recommendations, not Ms. Gilchrist's). Highly recommended; Pappy would have been proud. ( )
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Dean never needed a watch. He lived every day of his life by the sun. ---Family member speaking of Den Swift Faulkner
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The best and the worst thing that could have happened to me took place on November 10, 1935, four months before I was born, when my father, a barnstorming pilot, was killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-eight.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
In this book the author recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never convicted murderers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel prize winner arguably the most important American novelist of the twentieth century. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her family, in particular her uncle William or Pappy with whom she shared colorful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences. This memoir explores the close relationship between Dean's uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty eight during an air show four months before she was born. It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Dean's tragic death, William helped to raise his niece. He paid for her education, gave her away when she was married, and maintained a unique relationship with her throughout his life. From the 1920s to the early civil rights era, from Faulkner's winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature to his death in 1962, this work explores the changing culture and society of Oxford, Mississippi, while offering a rare glimpse of a notoriously private family and an indelible portrait of a national treasure. -- From Book jacket.
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Both humorous and heart-wrenching, this is an unwhitewashed look at the private life and family history of the famously-private Faulkner clan. Dean doesn't spare the details of her and her family's struggles, from her abusive stepfather to William's alcoholism and affairs, to her grandmother's casual racism. But the book is mostly given to her fond memories of Pappy and his mother (Nannie), clearly two people she loved very much, and the anecdotes and stories she shares come from a perspective no one else can offer.
Very much worth a read as an example of family memoir, or just as a good book. (