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Title: Major American author in a cheap suit
Review: I am a lifelong Faulkner fan and an ardent book collector. I have an extensive collection of Faulkner's novels in hardcover. (The Library of America series volumes, for example, are elegantly made, carefully edited, and affordable.) Curiously, a well-made,hardbound copy of Faulkner's collected short stories is hard to come by, so I hopefully ordered this edition. It's a total disappointment. While it is, technically speaking, "hardcover," it is flimsy and cheaply done. The pages are poorly reproduced and the paper is only a baby step above newsprint, while the binding is so feeble, it barely survived the unpacking. I'll continue my search for a good edition of Faulkner's collected stories; in the meantime this one will probably suffice as long as I don't actually try to read it.
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