Talking Business: Making Communication Work

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Internal communication is a growing field with the number of specialists increasing worldwide. In spite of this, and vast increases in spending on communication, research shows that organizations are finding it difficult to raise the number of employees who feel well informed.

Now, more than ever, internal communication does not just concern communication managers. In today's lean organizations line managers are taking on more and more of the burden of employee communication and managers of remote offices have to be their own communication managers.

'Talking Business: making communication work' addresses the key issues in communication within organizations, supported by case studies taken from experience of working with global businesses. It provides a coherent theory of business communication and shows how a radical difference to communication practice and business performance can be made. The authors employ an interactive structure throughout with signposts to link related cases and chapters.

Provides an explanation of the main themes in business communication
Clarifies the complex networks of communication in organizations and how these can be used to best advantageIncludes case studies from global business and signposts to aid clarification and comprehension

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hilarious
A perfect book
Fun Read
Fannie Flagg and the Miracle Man
What a story

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man

Manufacturer: Random House Audio
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0679410252
Release Date: 1992-08-18

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Here is Fannie Flagg's high-spirited and unabashedly sentimental first novel, the precursor to the bestselling Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

Taken from the pages of Daisy Fay Harper's journal, this is a coming of age story set in rural Mississippi that is by turns hilarious and touching. It begins in 1952 when Daisy Fay is a sassy, truth-tellin' but lonely eleven-year old, and ends six years later when she becomes the flamboyant, unlikely -- but assured -- winner of the Miss Mississippi contest. Along the way, we meet some of the raffish and outrageous town locals, including her own Daddy, who comes up with a mortgage scheme that requires Daisy's "resurrection." This is a thoroughly entertaining comic novel with a heroine who is bound to capture your heart.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg is also available from Random House AudioBooks.

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hilarious.......2007-10-10

I love Fannie Flagg's books, this book I found to be very funny, everyone I lent it too also thought it was funny. Enjoy

A perfect book.......2007-09-08

I just recently discovered Fannie Flagg and have been reading any book by this wonderful author that I can find. This is a warm, funny and wonderful novel about a young girl growing up in a very interesting enviroment. It had just enough mystery to keep me turning the pages (I love a good mystery) but was a good book to read before bed--some of those terror mysteries make it a little too hard to turn off the light.
I really enjoyed this novel--it is staying in my bookcase for a second read.

Fun Read.......2007-07-09

This book is interesting and full of fun. I laughed a lot reading this book.

Fannie Flagg and the Miracle Man.......2007-06-08

This book is one of my favorites. I adore the way Fannie Flagg greets you and warmly invites you right into the family. It's like a whole different world where you feel so welcome and so familiar. This particular book has wonderful sentiment and a charming sense of humor that only Fannie Flagg could create.

What a story .......2007-03-11

I love Daisy Fay. She made me laugh, she made me cry and then I was done with the book. I have to tell you this book was referred to me by a true southern lady named Melba and I will be forever indebted to her. When I finished the book I felt as though my best friend left and I was never to see her again. I will read Daisy Fay again and again. Fannie Flagg is now one of my favorite authors and I will look forward to all her future book. KEEP THEM COMING FANNIE. I AM A TRUE FAN!

True Tales of the Mojave: From Talking Rocks to Yucca Man

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True Tales of the Mojave: From Talking Rocks to Yucca Man

Manufacturer: Center for American Places
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1930066201

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Burnished copper mesas, pricked cacti, and hunched Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert stand as timeless witnesses to the evolution of the Western landscape, once the territory of ancient native tribes and now a high speed transportation corridor linking the sleek metropolises of Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Rising from the Mojave sands along with those more familiar physical elements are fifty-five narratives gathered here by Peter Wild that chronicle the evolving character and landscape of a legendary region of the American West.

True Tales of the Mojave is the first literary anthology to explore the place of the Mojave Desert, both past and present, in the American imagination. Wild provides engaging readings—ranging chronologically from prehistoric origin myths of native people to contemporary literature—that will delight readers drawn to the rich lore of the Mojave. The volume also captures the alien yet arresting beauty of the desert with a thirty-two-page galley of black-and-white illustrations and photographs featuring the people and places of the Mojave. True Tales of the Mojave unearths evocative writings that plumb the depths of this mythic desert of the American West.

Five Star First Edition Mystery - Dead Man Talking (Five Star First Edition Mystery)

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Good Read
A fabulous holiday investigative tale

Five Star First Edition Mystery - Dead Man Talking (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
Trana Mae Simmons
Manufacturer: Five Star
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 1594142572

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Weird things tend to happen when you live in a haunted house - not that author/ghost-hunter Alice Carpenter has a problem with the resident ghosts in her lakeside cabin near Six Gun, Texas. When her cousin Katy calls for help with the resident ghost at their family mansion, Alice agrees to come to the rescue. Then Katy discovers a headless corpse in her swimming pool. Alice must somehow uncover the identity of the murderer, or else Katy will be charged with the crime. Alice calls her ghost-hunting mentor, Twila, and her elderly neighbor, Granny, to assist in the investigation. Together the unlikely team of sleuths joins forces to track down the real killer and set Katy free.

T. M. Simmons lives in a haunted house on the edge of the East Texas Piney Woods.

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Good Read.......2006-07-12

This is a great book, especially if you love ghost stories and mysteries but don't like to be scared too much. =)

A fabulous holiday investigative tale .......2004-11-01

In Six Gun, Texas, author Alice Carpenter has worked out the rules of sharing her home with ghosts. However, her cousin Katy Gueydon is not doing quite as well dealing with spirits and begs Alice to help her with Sir Gary Gavin. Katy's plea changes when she finds a corpse in her swimming pool at Esprit d'Chene estate. Alice calls her former spouse Detective Jack Carpenter, who works near her cousin's home, while she drives the two hours to help Katy.

Alice quickly learns that the victim is Bucky Wilson-Jones, son of a state senator. Though Bucky was a reprobate, Alice realizes that the prime suspect is her cousin, a steal magnolia who has lost her metallic backbone. As Alice investigates the current killing, tries to solve Gary's two century old "undeliberate" murder, and works with settling down a bewildered and angry Bucky, she needs help. Jack don't believe in ghosts so she turns to her mentor Twila Brown and their neighbor Granny to form the ghosthunter amateur sleuth team trying to resolve the three related scenarios.

This is a fabulous holiday investigative tale that hooks the audience the moment that readers learn of The Alice and the Howard Ghost Agreement of co-living rules. The women especially Alice and the ghosts own the plot, but readers will commiserate more with Jack the non-believer; he copes with ghost hunting females, a real murder with political implications, and some paranormal phenomena that makes him wonder what to accept as truth. Even without the Ghostbusters, readers will believe in ghosts as Alice and company act like it is a normal phenomenon, all this supernatural phenomena resides inside a delightful who-done-it.

Harriet Klausner

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The Truth is a Knife and it cuts Deep.....
Apologist for murderers
Better books out there
Good reference for film and fiction on Ireland
Good reference for film and fiction on Ireland

IRA Man: Talking with the Rebels
Douglass McFerran
Manufacturer: Praeger Trade
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Binding: Hardcover

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This is the compelling story of a former Jesuit who traveled to Ireland in order to better understand the IRA, its widespread support among Irish Catholics, and the country's continuing civil unrest. Author Douglass McFerran, an American, made many key contacts in Northern Ireland, enabling him to gain unprecedented access to republican groups. He met with members of the Orange Lodge and the heavily armed Royal Ulster Constabulary; he had tea with leaders of Sinn Fein; and he participated in the annual Internment March on the streets of Belfast. In this book he provides a history of the conflict in Northern Ireland and goes beyond the propaganda on both sides to understand the causes of today's violence and explore what would be necessary to end it. McFerran wrote this book at the suggestion of individuals within the Irish republican community. During its writing he had the cooperation of several Sinn Fein leaders and past and present members of the IRA. McFerran came to believe that the violent situation in Northern Ireland can best be explained by considering the manner in which the English government, through genocide and civil repression, attempted to eliminate Irish resistance to English rule. The failure of the Anglo-Irish War to achieve a united Irish government brought on a republican movement with a political expression in Sinn Fein and a military expression in the guerrilla activities of the Irish Republican Army. The continued failure of the English government to negotiate with Irish nationalists can be attributed to a desire to maintain the political support of predominantly Protestant unionists, who since 1913 have pledged armed resistance to any effort to allow a Catholic-led government to rule over them.

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The Truth is a Knife and it cuts Deep............2005-10-25

I picked up this book after returning from a monthlong trip to the North of Ireland. I was absolutely shocked and compelled by its accuracy and how a book written a decade ago could completely mirror what I myself observed during my stay there. The rampant racism of the Unionists and blatant media distortion of their crimes that have long been fed to the public by British and American journalists is appalling. No wonder there have been so many cover-ups. If the general public had ever gotten wind of English and Unionist crimes perpetrated on the Irish Nationalist community the IRA would have had the support to humiliate the English out of their country years ago.

If you are the type of person who is allergic to the facts and are uncomfortable with any book that might make you question your safe, fashionable and politically correct(read:English-biased) opinions about the conflict in the North of Ireland, then don't bother reading this book. The real "terrorists" are the English and the American public that so rabidly swallows their lies. The volunteers of the IRA are heroes who would have made our early American freedom fighters(Washington, Jefferson, etc.) proud.

Apologist for murderers.......2003-12-18

Another book written seeking to find reasons for IRA terrorists planting bombs in public places ie Oxford Street Bus Depot,La Mon House Restaurant,Enniskillen Rememberance Day,Shankill Fish Shop.
This seems to be a book that gives excuses for murder,torture,maiming and hate.

Better books out there.......2001-12-23

I agree with those who found this book not very informative. McFerran talked to far too few people, wasted about a quarter of the book retelling Irish history, and frankly rathered embarrassed me with his naive viewpoint. (How impressed he was that there were well-paved roads in Ireland, for instance.) He's certainly sincere and well-intentioned, but read Toolis, Coogan, Adams, Belfrage and many others for far more thorough interviews, detail, and analysis.

Good reference for film and fiction on Ireland.......2000-09-07

Prof. Doug McFarren's book is the travelogue of an ethics professor with an empirical bent of mind. It's not enough for him to judge the violence wrought by the IRA without learning about it first hand, first from American activists and then from as many who will talk to him in Ireland. Along the way he delivers some of the convoluted history of this troubled nation in dense, readable narrative that serves as good introduction to a complex topic. He also provides wonderful references to and discussion of recent film and fiction representing the Troubles, that make this book a fine resource for the classroom -- especially for ethics professors who might want to devote a lesson to the complex moral issues of insurrection and civil strife.

Good reference for film and fiction on Ireland.......2000-09-07

Prof. Doug McFarren's book is the travelogue of an ethics professor with an empirical bent of mind. It's not enough for him to judge the violence wrought by the IRA without learning about it first hand, first from American activists and then from as many who will talk to him in Ireland. Along the way he delivers some of the convoluted history of this troubled nation in dense, readable narrative that serves as good introduction to a complex topic. He also provides wonderful references to film and fiction that make this book a fine resource for the classroom -- especially for ethics professors who might want to devote a lesson to the morality of insurrection and civil strife.

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Heavy on history and political detail, very low on romance
Connor Sullivan Barrow was certainly a charmer!
Politics and romance.
A Refreshing Read - From Title to Last Page
Light, Entertaining Romance

Sweet Talking Man
Betina Krahn
Manufacturer: Bantam
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0553576194
Release Date: 2000-07-05

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Betina Krahn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Soft Touch and The Perfect Mistress, casts her beguiling spell once more with this warm and witty love story....

She was an independent woman-with only one weakness...  an irresistible downtown man...

An immovable uptown lady...  rich suffragette Beatrice Von Furstenberg was tough enough to trade stocks on Wall Street and smart enough to resist the temptation of passion.  Adamant about women being independent-and without a romantic bone in her lovely body-she had sternly refused to give her moonstruck sixteen-year-old ward permission to wed an eighteen-year-old suitor. Now the desperate teens have dreamed up a mock robbery and a daring rescue to change Beatrice's mind.

Attorney Connor Barrow, a rogue of an Irishman with a silver tongue, remembers all too well the burning desires of youth.  So he agrees to help in a crazy plan that will land him in a world of trouble. Suddenly he is responsible for the most influential lady in the city being locked up in a brothel, furious and threatening his ruin.  Neither of them expects that first breathless kiss-a deal that would make the devil himself blush-and, most of all, the ways love can change a man's mind and open a woman's heart....

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Heavy on history and political detail, very low on romance.......2006-03-05

This was the first book that I've tried by this author, and I wasn't very impressed. This story started out interesting, and had a lot of potential, but didn't seem to be able to live up to it.

There was too much historical and political detail in it. It was not woven in with the story to provide an interesting background. Instead, it WAS the story. The romance seemed tacked on as an afterthought. There was no chemistry between the leads. The hero kept throwing out innuendoes that just made me roll my eyes in disbelief that the heroine was falling for such manufactured garbage. She was supposed to be a strong, intelligent woman of thirty. Yet he starts praising parts of her body (this when they hardly know each other!) and she acts like a blushing schoolgirl. Given how she had been portrayed up to that point, I would have expected her to slap his face or knee him in the groin, not get flustered.

I found this book to be just plain boring. It could have been interesting, but instead it dragged. I had to force myself through the first 100 pages (I try to give a book at least that long to redeem itself), but my eyes kept glazing over. I was having to force myself to read it. A good novel shouldn't make you do this.

I will try this author again, as I have one of her other books on my 'to be read' shelf, but if she doesn't redeem herself then, I'll be putting her on my 'do not buy' list. Considering that Betina Krahn is a New York Times bestselling author, maybe this was just the 'bomb' of her career. It seems most good writers have one, so maybe this is hers. I don't know since I've never tried her work before.

I do not recommend this book if you're looking for a romance novel. It isn't romantic. If you want to read about this history of women's sufferage, then this will give that to you. But not romance.

Connor Sullivan Barrow was certainly a charmer!.......2003-03-10

This is my fifth book by Ms Krahn and yet another confirmation of her talent. She tells such terrific stories with lots of humour, sensuous romance and an examination of the major issues of the period. This time, it's 1892 New York, the Tammany Hall political machine and the Women's Suffrage movement.

Beatrice Von Furstenburg is a hard-nosed business woman who was given the reins of Consolidated Industries on the death of her elderly husband much to the dismay of it's otherwise male board of directors. She's also guardian for her niece, 16 year old Priscilla, who is madly in love and wants to marry her 18 year old beau. Beatrice claims not to have a romantic bone in her body and repeated tells them they're too young and stupid to marry. Frustrated, they hatch a hairbrained scheme intended to change Beatrice's low opinion of Jeffrey but the scheme goes terribly wrong and the teens must look to Jeffrey's estranged cousin to get them all out of this mess!

Connor Sullivan Barrow is focused on running for Congress and wants nothing to do with "precious Jeffrey" or his problems. But he winds up involved and once he meets Beatrice, he's helplessly intrigued. "I was always taught to beware a touch of red in a woman's hair. It bespeaks a strong will. But, speakin' personally, I like a strong bit of will in a woman. Always a site more enjoyable than a strong bit of won't". And so starts the charm offensive! On the outside, she's unmoved, but on the inside, she must admit that his "smile was pure alchemy" and she starts to slowly fall.

But the road to romance is quite rocky for these two. She pushes him to endorse the suffrage movement, his bosses in Tammany Hall tell him never to see her again. She has to contend with a mutiny in her board of directors and he has to choose between her and his political future. And then there is his hostile estranged WASP grandfather who never forgave Connor for marrying a "shanty Irish" girl so far beneath him (she ultimately died) and for turning his back on the family and it's banking interests. And almost every problem in their relationship seems to be splashed in the headlines of the newspapers, compounding the problems these two face.

I really had fun reading this story, as with all the author's other stories. The lead couple was smart, sexy, conflicted and utlimately perfect for each other. You hoped Beatrice would lighten up and you adored Connor all the while hoping, along with Beatrice, that his "sweet talk" was sincere!

Another enjoyable, fun and romantic read from Betina Krahn!

Politics and romance........2000-09-16

When Beatrice Von Furstenberg refused permission for her 16 year old niece, Priscilla, to marry her 18 year old beau, Jeffrey, Priscilla had an idea. Put Beatrice in danger, then have Jeffrey rescue her. But Jeffrey is late and Beatrice is kidnapped and dumped in a brothel for safekeeping. Tammany-backed Congressional candidate Connor Barrow must rescue Beatrice while keeping everyong involved out of police hands. Beatrice and Connor find themselves becoming closer as they work for womens' right to vote and a woman-friendly bank.

Plodding start despite interesting characters. The chemistry between Beatrice and Connor is forced in the beginning, only improving in the last half of the book. Tammany's acts are very accurate.

A Refreshing Read - From Title to Last Page.......2000-08-29

SWEET TALKING MAN definitely lives up to its title. When a handsome politician running for congress meets corporate giant Beatrice Von Furstenberg in a most unusual fashion, it is his smooth tongue that irresistibly wins her trust. Not an easy thing to do with a sassy suffragette.

When I first picked up this book, I wasn't sure I was going to like it. I usually don't buy romance novels with clinch covers, even when they are somewhat tastefully done -- as is the case with SWEET TALKING MAN. In any event, as soon as I started reading, I was pleasantly surprised. And I could not put the book down.

Betina Krahn is a newly discovered author for me, and now that I found her, I plan to read more of her work. Her writing is crisp and fresh. Everything from the dialogue to the mannerisms of her characters flows musically and with a realism that never seems contrived. But the most noteworthy prase I can offer Ms Krahn is the intelligence that practically radiates off the pages. Here is a writer who showers her prose with unique historical issues and cleverly blends it with modern-day morals. And it is so nice to read a historical romance that doesn't involve castles!

I have to respond to Shawna Ianne's review. I do not see how you missed the chemistry between Conner Barrow and Beatrice Von Furstenberg. From the minute he walks into the "dungeon" and sets his eyes on her, you can almost hear their breathing quicken. In fact, Ms Krahn is a master at building chemistry before the hero and heroine ever take off a stitch of clothes. The way Conner looks at Beatrice. And the way he TALKS to her! How could you have missed that? Those were the best parts!

As to the ending, how insightful to move ahead to present day. I loved it. Beats the typical ending that I can always predict. In fact, this is the first novel in a long time that I've read every word on the last few pages.

Thanks Ms. Krahn, for the entertaining read!

Light, Entertaining Romance.......2000-07-17

I can't equate this novel with Krahn's best novel, "The Last Bachelor". In that one she had hero and heroine on opposite sides of an issue in the Victorian era, just as she does in this one. "Bachelor", however, was absolutely LOL hilarious as well. This is an extremely likable couple nonetheless. A struggling Irish politician, who is virtually in the pocket of New York City's Tammany Hall, up against a wealthy widow suffragette, determined to open her own bank for women, provide us with many early Tracy vs. Hepburn feuding but romantic moments. This alone makes it worth buying. It is a big improvement over her last novel, "The Soft Touch", which I couldn't even finish. The stepback (inner cover on two facing pages) by cover artist Franco Accornero is a knock out portrait of the two romantic lead characters and just may push you over the edge into buying it. I know it did the trick for me! If you are wavering, buy Krahn's "The Last Bachelor" instead, which is a solid 5 star read.

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Criminally underappreciated
Best Ever by a Living Author

Talking Man
Terry Bisson
Manufacturer: Avon Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0380751410

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Criminally underappreciated.......2006-02-24

This is a wonderful contemporary fantasy about a magic man who owns a car repair shop. The young protagonist has to convince him to fix an old car and drive with him to the North Pole. Bisson creates one surreal scenario after another that, though they seem unbelievable, are so palatable they go down like honey.

Bisson's writing is masterful and engaging. It should be a felony for this book to be out of print. Find your self a copy and read. Really.

One of you editors who read this review should get this book back on the shelves.

PS I love Bisson but I seem to be the only one around who doesn't understand the story, "Bears Discover Fire." And I went to graduate school and everything! Anyone out there feel like enlightening me?

Best Ever by a Living Author.......1999-12-13

This is Terry Bisson's best work. Never to be duplicated, this novel is the best available of any living author.

Far better than his other great efforts.

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Talking with Donkeys: The Simple Philosopy of a 21st Century Burro Man
Mark S Meyers
Manufacturer: Peaceful Valley Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0977147118

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"Join one of the last remaining Burro Men as he explores the remote deserts of the American Southwest, gives an intimate tour of one of the world's finest animal rescues and shares his no-nonesense philosophy of practical compassion".

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Dead Man Talking
Richard Woodman
Manufacturer: Severn House Publishers
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0727857606

William Faulkner Reads: The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech and Selections from As I Lay Dying, A Fable, and The Old Man

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William Faulkner Reads: The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech and Selections from As I Lay Dying, A Fable, and The Old Man
William Faulkner
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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âRendered by the author with a rich deep-south accent that gives uncanny realism to each of the selections undertaken. His reading pace is neither slow nor fast and he conjures up many vivid, picturesque images for his listening audience. . . Strongly recommended.â' - Roslyn News

This historic recording contains the first readings by William Faulkner of his work. One hearing is hardly enough. As in his books, penetration deepens with each new experience of the work. Yield to Faulkner's serenity, the deep-south way with words, the unaffected ease with which he drifts into Yoknapatawpha dialect. A recording more important than this is not likely to be made soon.

Includes: The Nobel Prize acceptance speech, As I Lay Dying (Tull-Darl-Vardaman-Vardaman), A Fable (excerpt), The Old Man (excerpt).

William Faulkner (1897-1962) is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all American novelists and short-story writers. His other works include the novels The Sound and the Fury, The Reivers, and Sanctuary. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and in 1949 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This audio reproduces the full sound spectrum of the historic recordings; it has been re-mastered using contemporary digital equipment.

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