The Sound and the Fury

Its unlike anything else in literature... The experience of reading it seemed closer to the experience of life than anything provided by a neatly contrived story line... After the war I read all I could of William Faulkner, and he continued to present some unique and, it seemed to me, valid way of looking at life

Nicholas Mosley, Guardian

Not only was the book a kind of beginning for me, but that it endured still, it moved me deeply and remains "the damndest book I ever read"

Niall Williams, Sunday Times

One of the most important works of American literature this century

Observer

For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterisation, humour and tragic intensity [Faulkner's works] are without equal in our time and country

Robert Penn Warren

Faulkner has inexhaustible invention, powerful imagination, and he writes like an angel

Arnold Bennett