Phil Stone of Oxford: A Vicarious Life
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An account of the influence on William Faulkner of his friendship with Phil Stone, who, in the first decades of their friendship, served as mentor, muse, patron, editor, agent and publicist to the writer and was one of his first biographers. Susan Snell suggests that Stone was one of Faulkner's principal character studies, and from his life came the raw material out of which Faulkner constructed an important part of his fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Faulkner also appropriated Stone's personality and profession to mirror, and sometimes to mask, his own insecurities. In Stone, Faulkner saw the Old South confronting 20th-century crucibles - the rapacious white lower classes, the Great Depression, and the first stirrings of the civil rights and women's movements.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0820312967
ISBN13:9780820312965
Release Date:January 1991
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Length:399 Pages
Weight:1.95 lbs.
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