The Bear William
Faulkner
Read this novel forty years ago, and it seems just as great now.
The beautiful, intense, well-crafted prose moves us through the lives of McCaslins
and the death of the Mississippi wilderness symbolized in the hunt for and killing
of Old Ben, a monumental bear that has eluded the encroaching civilization for generations.
While I remembered parts clearly, it was fresh and powerful once again, got me through
some tough stuff, as well.
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