Near the end of this novel, a man named Byron Birch falls in love with the mother of another character's baby, and is repulsed when he tries to sleep with her.
The protagonist of this novel knocks out a man at a country dance, and gets beat up by a man and a woman who are traveling to Memphis. Near the end of this novel, a man named Byron Birch falls in love with the mother of another character's baby, and is repulsed when he tries to sleep with her. The farmer McEachern attempts to raise the protagonist of this novel, but abuses him. One woman in this novel attempts to convert the protagonist and later fails to kill him because her pistol is antiquated, and her name is Joanna Burden. Joe Brown works with the protagonist at a sawmill and tries to pin the blame for a murder on him, while another character has a vision of a wheel and offers him shelter. For ten points, identify this novel about Gail Hightower and Joe Christmas, a novel by William Faulkner.
The protagonist of this novel knocks out a man at a country dance, and gets beat up by a man and a woman who are traveling to Memphis.
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