The Reivers (Vintage International)
Staff Reviews
This is our March 2024 Book Club pick.
The meetings are:
3/14/2024. Thursday Evening. 6:30pm - 7:30pm. More information here.
3/20/2024. Wednesday Morning. 9:00am - 10:00am. More information here.
Description
One of Faulkner’s comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family’s retainers, to steal his grandfather’s car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priests’ black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey, for which they are all ill-equipped, that ends at Miss Reba’s bordello in Memphis. From there a series of wild misadventures ensues—involving horse smuggling, trainmen, sheriffs’ deputies, and jail.