Predator: The Faulkner Collection

Author: William Faulkner (USA), translated by Wang Ying and Yang Jing
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The Bearers is a highly acclaimed "coming-of-age novel" by Faulkner. The grandson of a banker, Lucius, secretly takes his grandfather's car with the driver Hogenbeck and the black servant Ned to a distant place, staying at a brothel. Hogenbeck finds a prostitute named Cora, while Ned, to help another black servant, secretly trades the car for a horse, participates in a race with it, and wins back the car. Four days later, they return home. Hogenbeck marries Cora, and the protagonist of the story, Lucius, who is only 11 years old, matures through these four days of adventures. He experiences both the kindness, compassion, and mutual care of people, and witnesses greed, cunning, depravity, and decadence. Through the conflict between virtue and vice, he is tempered and grows up.