"The Bear", "The Old People", "A Bear Hunt", "Race at Morning"--some of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner's most famous stories are collected in this volume--in which he observed, celebrated, and mourned the fragile otherness that is nature, as well as the cruelty and humanity of men. "Contains some of Faulkner's best work".
The hunter and the hunted are portrayed in four stories with preludes and an epilogue that link the individual narratives.