Hate, Greed, Lust and Doom
Sean O’Faolain, 16 April 1981
William Faulkner: His Life and Work
by David Minter.
Johns Hopkins, 325 pp., £9.50, January 1981,0 8018 2347 1 Show More
by David Minter.
Johns Hopkins, 325 pp., £9.50, January 1981,
“... It is like widows: the longer the old boy is gone the nicer he seems to have been. I think of Thomas Hardy’s first wife. They squabbled for years. He fell in love with another woman, wrote love poems about her. When the first died, and she really was a bit of a heap at the end (she wore boots), he married the second and started writing his love poems to ... ”