Pylon Donna Leon Like Cervantes' classic

Like Cervantes' classic

the boy and his dog fall into the clutches of the Barbary Slave Lord

is a good man in need of a rest

But when Marcus Septimus asks Libertus to join him on official business

Lester Ferris will do almost anything

Pylon Donna Leon Like Cervantes' classicOne of the few of William Faulkners works to be set outside his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Pylon, first published in 1935, takes place at an air show in a thinly disguised New Orleans named New Valois. An unnamed reporter for a local newspaper tries to understand a very modern mnage a trois of flyers on the brainstorming circuit. These characters, Faulkner said, were a fantastic and bizarre phenomenon on the face of the contemporary scene. . . .