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The Town

A Novel of the Snopes Family

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The Town

By: William Faulkner
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
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This is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South. Like its predecessor, The Hamlet, and its successor, The Mansion, The Town is completely self-contained, but it gains resonance from the other two.

The story of Flem Snopes' ruthless struggle to take over the town of Jefferson, Mississippi, the book is rich in typically Faulknerian episodes of humor and of profundity.

As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of William Faulkner's book, you'll also receive an exclusive Jim Atlas interview. This interview – where James Atlas interviews James Lee Burke about the life and work of William Faulkner – begins as soon as the audiobook ends.

This production is part of our Audible Modern Vanguard line, a collection of important works from groundbreaking authors.©1957 William Faulkner (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
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Faulkner always delivers, albeit some of the middle chapters were slow . . .

#FaulknerInAugust2022

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Stunning audio performance of Faulkner masterpiece. The saga of Snopes continues in this second of the trilogy.
Tragic, philosophical, and very funny, Faulkner illuminates the human condition through the history of a southern community and the observations made of one particularly voracious family. Performance is excellent.

Stunning performance of Faulkner masterpiece

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The narrator sounded genuine to my Southern ears. Great performance Joe Barrett. I hope to hear you again.

The narrator did a great job!

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This book picks up the Snopes saga as The Snopes family “invades“ Jefferson, Mississippi, town of about 3000 oddly enough it’s told in first person by various characters as opposed to the first volume the hamlet, which was told in third person. There are intrigues and scandals that arise with some surprising and very unexpected outcomes toward the end of the book. 

The continuation of the Snopes saga 

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Faulkner humorously tells tales about the Snopes family members....sneaky, oily, crafty, ravening, grasping, double-dealing, nearly wolfish lower class Southerners who are determined to rise above their birth status.

This is one of the easier Faulkner titles to read. Still, Faulkner does employ his challenging prose style at times, so the reader/listener must attend carefully.

The narrator of the book did a very good job, with an excellent accent and very good pacing.

Accessible Faulkner

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An amazing and profound listen that I know already I will return to again. The depth and uniqueness of the writing gave me goosebumps often. A beautifully crafted novel.

Stunning

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What can I say the prose is like poetry. Such an ensight on the southern psyche. Want to listen to another now. However, I am spacing them out.Ehen I listen to the last one, there are no more coming out

Completely Awesome

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This superb second in the Snopes trilogy (*The Hamlet,* *The Town,* and *The Mansion*) is an improvement from and much more accessible than the first, and, for that matter, than all of Faulkner's oeuvre with the exceptions of *The Unvanquished* (a series of related shorts) and the novel *Light in August.*

I was surprised, saddened and ultimately edified upon learning the fate of a significant fictional female, whose character and what she symbolized were bound to doom by the growing commercialization of the American South in the first few decades of the 20th Century.

Superb and Accessible Second in Snopes Trilogy

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This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

I like many of William Faulkner's other books, but this one I didn't finish. Too many characters to keep track of, not a very interesting story to me about a small town, and the reader's voice was not to my liking.

Would you ever listen to anything by William Faulkner again?

I would listen to other Faulkner books that I know, but I would definitely preview a sample of the reader's voice.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Joe Barrett?

If I was able to hire the narrator, I would have hired Richard Poe, narrator of John Steinbeck's

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

This book didn't have any redeeming qualities for me. I listened for two hours and then jumped ahead, searching for something to pique my interest. No such luck. I kept waiting for the story to get better. Very disappointing. Finally just moved on to another book.

Disappointment

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