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| | A Million Little Pieces | | The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting "The Fury" head on |  A Million Little Pieces (Oprah's Book Club) by James Frey (Paperback - September 22, 2005) Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette (Abridged) | Audio CD (Abridged) | Digital (Microsoft Reader) | Digital (Adobe Reader) | | _2"> A Million Little Pieces [UNABRIDGED] (Paperback - 2003) | _3">  _3">The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper (Paperback - January 25, 2005) Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette (Abridged) | Audio CD (Abridged) | Audio CD | Digital (Microsoft Reader) | Digital (Adobe Reader) | _2">  _2">Cane River (Oprah's Book Club (Paperback)) (Paperback - February 28, 2005) | | William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons of Murry and Maud Butler Falkner (he later added the “u” to the family name himself). In 1904 the family moved to the university town of Oxford, Mississippi, where Faulkner was to spend most of his life. He was named for his great-grandfather The Old Colonel{William C Falkner}, a Civil War veteran who built a railroad, wrote a bestselling romantic novel called The White Rose of Memphis, became a Mississippi state legislator, and was eventually killed in what may or may not have been a duel with a disgruntled business partner. Faulkner identified with this robust and energetic ancestor and often said that he inherited the “ink stain” from him. |
| | A Summer of Faulkner | | The 2005 Summer Selection is available in an exclusive three volume boxed edition that includes a special reader’s guide with an introduction by Oprah Winfrey. |  A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/ The Sound and the Fury/ Light in August (Oprah's Book Club) [BOX SET] by William Faulkner (Paperback - June 3, 2005) Other Editions: Paperback (Box set) | | A Summer of Faulkner Titles include: |  As I Lay Dying (Vintage International) by William Faulkner (Paperback - January 30, 1991) Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette ~ This novel is the harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members–including Addie herself–the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Originally published in 1930. | _1">  _1">The Sound and the Fury (Vintage International) by William Faulkner (Paperback - January 30, 1991) Other Editions: Paperback | Hardcover (Large Print) | | The Sound and the Fury : The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix (Modern Library) by William Faulkner (Hardcover - September 5, 1992) Other Editions: Hardcover - February 1988 | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Hardcover (Large Print) | Unknown Binding |  Light in August (Vintage International) by William Faulkner (Paperback - January 30, 1991) Other Editions: Paperback ~ First published in 1929, Faulkner created his “heart’s darling,” the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers–the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. | | Light in August : The Corrected Text (Modern Library) by William Faulkner (Hardcover - April 2, 2002) Other Editions: School & Library Binding | Paperback | Audio Cassette (Unabridged) |  Light In August by William Faulkner ~ Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, Reverend Gail Hightower, and Joe Christmas, a desperate, mysterious drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry. |
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