This is a post war story of a wounded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart in Georgia.
Soldier's Pay
β Scribed by William Faulkner
- Publisher
- Random House;Vintage Digital
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 169 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to see him home to Georgia, to a family who believed him dead, and a fiancΓ©e who grew tired of waiting. Faulkner's first novel deals powerfully with lives blighted by war.
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