The scene is Mississippi. The time is 1905. And the action opens with a bang and a roar when three oddly assorted accomplices - a part-Indian with a roving eye, a less-than-faithful black family retainer, and a canny eleven-year-old white boy - steal an auto and start a trip that makes LSD seem tame.

(Key Words: Novels, William Faulkner, Fiction, Mississippi, Nobel Prize Winners, American South, 1905, Car Theft).