The reivers : a reminiscence

One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces relates the adventures of eleven-year-old Lucius Priest on the day he stole his grandfather's car to drive to Memphis. Ned, Boon and young Lucius travel to Memphis in a stolen car to find love and fortune.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. "... this is a deceptively funny, complex saga about a boy, a stolen automobile and the South in 1905... It is a fine, wild, poignant book." - Kirkus Reviews"The Reivers" was published in 1962, barely a month before Faulkner's death that July. It is a work of fiction, but he called it "A Reminiscence." This appears to have less to do with any direct connections to his own boyhood (though doubtless there are some) than with the nostalgic mood that Faulkner found himself in during the December of his life. " - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostWilliam Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, his reputation is based mostly on his novels, novellas, and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Three unlikely thieves, or reivers, 11-year-old Lucius Priest and two of his family's retainers, set out from Mississippi for Memphis in 1905 in a stolen motorcar