Speedboat (NYRB Classics) Native American Literature William Faulkner

William Faulkner

And he defended the use of the atomic bomb he helped create

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and novelist

as he works in factories and tries to make the greatest rap album of all time

Speedboat (NYRB Classics) Native American Literature William FaulknerWinner of the Hemingway Foundation PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America. When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late 70s it was like nothing readers had encountered before. It seemed to disregard the rules of the novel, but it wore its unconventionality with ease. Reading it was a pleasure of a new, unexpected kind. Above all, there was its voice,