WILLIAM FAULKNER
Mosquitoes
A Novel
With a new introduction by Frederick R. Karl
A delightful surprise, Faulkner wrote his second novel "for the sake of writing because it was fun."
Mosquitoes centers around a colorful assortment of passengers, out on a boating excursion from New Orleans. The rich and the aspiring, social butterflies and dissolute dilettantes are all easy game for Faulkner's barbed wit in this engaging high-spirited novel which offers a fascinating glimpse of Faulkner as a young artist.
"It approaches in the first half and reaches in the second half a brilliance that you can rightfully expect only in the writings of a few men. It is full of the fine kind of swift and lusty writing that comes from a healthy, fresh pen."--Lillian Hellman, New York Herald Tribune
Frederick R. Karl is the author of William Faulkner: American Writer. He is a professor at New York University.
1996 / paperback reissue / ISBN 0-87140-167-3 / 304 pages / literature
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