Breakfast with Faulkner
Published on 27. June 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
286 pages
978-0-692-88093-7 (ISBN)
Description
In 1938, Archibald Cameron, the benevolent and uncompromising judge of a small county in rural Mississippi, hosts author William Faulkner at an after-hunt breakfast. Discussing such diverse subjects as writing, peach brandy, aerial combat, and racism, the judge thoughtfully studies Faulkner and his enigmatic person. This meeting begins a correspondence and series of happenstance encounters that tie together four generations of the Cameron-Devereaux family, as they face struggles with the economy, the klan, Nazis, and the challenges of living in the New South.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-692-88093-7 (9780692880937)
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Tony Jordan grew up on the Gulf Coast and graduated with honors from the University of the South at Sewanee. He became a rescue pilot with the U.S. Air Force and then an instructor, test pilot and squadron commander before being recruited into the CIA where he worked several undercover assignments as a clandestine operations officer before moving into senior management positions at the Agency's headquarters in Langley, VA. After twenty-six plus years with the Agency he retired to a position with a major research and development firm in Cambridge, MA. He now writes novels and short stories in his tower office at Spy Hill Farm in the foothills of the Crab Orchard Mountains of Tennessee assisted by his wife Anne, also a retired senior Agency officer and his BFF Tailwagger Jack.