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Mosquitoes

William Faulkner

Editorial: Alien Ebooks

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Mosquitoes centers around a colorful assortment of passengers, out on a boating excursion from New Orleans. The rich and the aspiring, social butterflies and dissolute dilettantes are all easy game for Faulkner’s barbed wit in this engaging high-spirited novel which offers a fascinating glimpse of Faulkner as a young artist. “It approaches in the first half and reaches in the second half a brilliance that you can rightfully expect only in the writings of a few men. It is full of the fine kind of swift and lusty writing that comes from a healthy, fresh pen.”—Lillian Hellman, New York Herald Tribune
Disponible desde: 20/06/2023.
Longitud de impresión: 111 páginas.

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