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A wounded soldier returns home to a world that no longer fits.
William Faulkner’s Soldier’s Pay follows Donald Mahon, a gravely injured World War I pilot, as he returns to his Southern hometown to find that peace has brought no salvation. His homecoming exposes the moral and emotional decay beneath small-town respectability, where compassion mingles uneasily with vanity and denial. Through luminous prose and shifting perspectives, Faulkner captures a generation haunted by loss and struggling to rebuild meaning from the wreckage of war. Both tender and unsparing, Soldier’s Pay marks the emergence of a major literary voice and the birth of Faulkner’s enduring themes of memory, guilt, and the tragic cost of survival.
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