Shingles for the Lord

"Shingles for the Lord" is a short story written by the American author William Faulkner, first published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1943.^[1] The story takes place in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County focusing on Res Grier, a struggling farmer, as he joins his neighbors in roofing the old church house and is narrated by his son in colloquial language. The story is on the surface a comic diversion, developing a plot similar to that of a situation comedy in which the attempt of one character to outsmart the others leads him to a sort of banishment or ostracism from which he must recuperate himself in order to reclaim his place in the community.

References

↑ WFotW ~ "Shingles for the Lord": COMMENTARY & RESOURCES

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William Faulkner

Biography Bibliography

Novels	Soldiers' Pay (1926) Mosquitoes (1927) Sartoris / Flags in the Dust (1929 / 1973) The Sound and the Fury (1929) As I Lay Dying (1930) Sanctuary (1931) Light in August (1932) Pylon (1935) Absalom, Absalom! (1936) The Unvanquished (1938) If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939) The Hamlet (1940) Intruder in the Dust (1948) Requiem for a Nun (1951) A Fable (1954) The Town (1957) The Mansion (1959) The Reivers (1962)

Short story collections	These 13 (1931) Go Down, Moses (1942) Knight's Gambit (1949) Collected Stories (1950)

Short stories	"Landing in Luck" (1919) "A Rose for Emily" (1930) "Red Leaves" (1930) "Dry September" (1931) "Spotted Horses" (1931) "That Evening Sun" (1931) "Mountain Victory" (1932) "Barn Burning" (1939) "The Tall Men" (1941) "Shingles for the Lord" (1943)

Screenplays	Flesh (1932) Today We Live (1933) Submarine Patrol (1938)

Related	William Clark Falkner (great-grandfather) Rowan Oak home Papers and manuscripts William Faulkner Foundation Yoknapatawpha County Compson Family Louis Grenier Ikkemotubbe Gavin Stevens Thomas Sutpen Snopes trilogy Southern Renaissance Faux Faulkner contest PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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