Nancy, a black nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress's baby. Her lawyer, Gavin Stevens, compels the mistress to confess the reason for Nancy's crime. The law takes its course; but justice, in Faulkner's sense, has been done. Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature.

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Paperback, 2nd Edition

ISBN13: 9780099585916

Vintage Classics, 1996

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