Intruder in the Dust

Set in the Deep South that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkners finest fiction, Intruder in the Dust is the novel that marks the final phase of this authors outstanding creative period. The chronicle of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and under threat from the lynch mob, is a characteristically Faulknerian tale of dark omen, its sole ray of hope the character of the young white boy who repays an old favour by proving the innocence of the man who once saved him from drowning in an icy creek.