Beat Six

by John Faulkner

In Beat Six, Faulkner writes about the shock of a townsman who learns the disturbing truth about his neighbors, in particular the lengths to which politicians will reach to preserve local tradition. In this close-knit, sometimes inbred world, sympathetic outsiders & unlucky blacks are at the mercy of the local white trash. A Scandinavian transplant-turned-farmer is murdered & the basic values of the agrarian South are called into question, examined & reexamined, as only a Faulkner can do best. Beat Six sets the stage for John Faulkner's critically-acclaimed later novels in the tradition of his brother William's well-known & similar hill country characters: the Bundrens of As I Lay Dying, the Snopes of The Hamlet & the Gowries of Intruder in the Dust. Beat Six is Faulkner's career-defining "little postage stamp of native soil", the description coined by his brother William in referring to his fictional Yoknapatawpha.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

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Born John Falkner, younger brother of William Cuthbert Falkner (aka William Faulkner)