The third chapter of this novel, "Night in the Vieux Carré," has a scene in which the editor Hagood sees a stack of newspapers in an elevator with a watch on top, picks the watch up, then carelessly puts it back on the papers covering a big headline announcing death. At the end, a child is taken to live with his grandparents in Myron, Ohio – his mother is unsure of his real father, and earlier has two men play a dice game to decide. A real man named Herman Deutsch was the basis for the nameless Reporter, and another character Jiggs is described as a "centaur-like man." He's part of the central group along with Roger Shumann, who ends up marrying the flamboyantly sexual tomboy Laverne, instead of her other sex partne
The third chapter of this novel, "Night in the Vieux Carré," has a scene in which the editor Hagood sees a stack of newspapers in an elevator with a watch on top, picks the watch up, then carelessly puts it back on the papers covering a big headline announcing death. At the end, a child is taken to live with his grandparents in Myron, Ohio – his mother is unsure of his real father, and earlier has two men play a dice game to decide. A real man named Herman Deutsch was the basis for the nameless Reporter, and another character Jiggs is described as a "centaur-like man." He's part of the central group along with Roger Shumann, who ends up marrying the flamboyantly sexual tomboy Laverne, instead of her other sex partner Jack Holmes. Adapted into a film called The Tarnished Angels, this novel is set in New Valois during the celebration of Mardi Gras, and its title refers to the steel posts around which barnstorming pilots had to navigate during the air show. FTP, name this oft-overlooked novel ►by William Faulkner, with a one-word title.
The third chapter of this novel, "Night in the Vieux Carré," has a scene in which the editor Hagood sees a stack of newspapers in an elevator with a watch on top, picks the watch up, then carelessly puts it back on the papers covering a big headline announcing death.
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