Shingles for the Lord
"Shingles for the Lord" is a short story written by the American author William Faulkner, first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1943.[1] The story takes place in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County focusing on Res Grier, a struggling farmer, as he joins his neighbors in roofing the old church house and is narrated by his son in colloquial language. The story is on the surface a comic diversion, developing a plot similar to that of a situation comedy in which the attempt of one character to outsmart the others leads him to a sort of banishment or ostracism from which he must recuperate himself in order to reclaim his place in the community.
References
- ^ WFotW ~ "Shingles for the Lord": COMMENTARY & RESOURCES
External links
- Semo´s page on the book
- Mcsr´s page on the book
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William Faulkner
- Bibliography
- Soldiers' Pay (1926)
- Mosquitoes (1927)
- Sartoris / Flags in the Dust (1929 / 1973)
- The Sound and the Fury (1929)
- As I Lay Dying (1930)
- Sanctuary (1931)
- Light in August (1932)
- Pylon (1935)
- Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
- The Unvanquished (1938)
- If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939)
- The Hamlet (1940)
- Go Down, Moses (1942)
- Intruder in the Dust (1948)
- Requiem for a Nun (1951)
- A Fable (1954)
- The Town (1957)
- The Mansion (1959)
- The Reivers (1962)
collections
- These 13 (1931)
- Knight's Gambit (1949)
- Collected Stories (1950)
- "Landing in Luck" (1919)
- "A Rose for Emily" (1930)
- "Red Leaves" (1930)
- "Dry September" (1931)
- "Spotted Horses" (1931)
- "That Evening Sun" (1931)
- "Mountain Victory" (1932)
- "Barn Burning" (1939)
- "The Tall Men" (1941)
- "Shingles for the Lord" (1943)
- Flesh (1932)
- Today We Live (1933)
- Submarine Patrol (1938)
- To Have and Have Not (1944)
- The Big Sleep (1945)
- The Wishing Tree (1927)
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