Requiem for a Nun.

FAULKNER, William.

$225.00

Item Number: 145439

New York: Random House, 1951.

First trade edition of the sequel to Faulkner's early novel ‘Sanctuary.’ Octavo, original half cloth. First state with all issue points: first edition not stated, dark gray top stain, ‘Chocktaw’ rather than ‘Choctaw’ on page 21, dust jacket designer E. McKnight Kauffer’s name misspelled as ‘M. McKnight Kauffer’ on the front flap of the dust jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.

'Requiem for a Nun' follows the characters of Temple Drake, her friend (later husband) Gowan Stevens, and Gowan's uncle Gavin Stevens, introduced in Faulkner's 'Sanctuary.' The events in Requiem are set in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County and Jackson, Mississippi, in November 1937 and March 1938, eight years after the events of Sanctuary. In Requiem, Temple, now married with a child, must learn to deal with her violent, turbulent past as related in Sanctuary.