Adam Barr

Soldiers' Pay Adam Barr

The first novel published by William Faulkner follows the homecoming of a wounded aviator soldier after his time in World War One. Escorted to his small hometown in Georgia by another wounded veteran of the war and a widow, he must face the realities of his absence: his anything-but-loyal fiance, the silence he lives in that comes around because of his injury, and the widow's plan to marry him herself.