The Saunders brothers, Kell, Jeff, Mackey are all part of the band and a single mom family. Grant Adams is everything to Mackey including his brother's best friend and bandmate. This is Mackey Saunders story of how he fell in love at 14 and spent 5 years with the his first true love in a secret relationship. I cried huge big sobbing tears at several points in the story. I will not spoil this great story with too many details but know that I cried.

more as many days and I am thrilled and totally wrecked by this story. Review 2: 5 Mackey McKay stars! This is my second 5 star read in. The love between these people is intense and you will not be able to get through this book without a few Kleenex. Strong enough to be loved and strong enough to realize that the people who love him can hold him up when he lags. Strong enough to be fixed as long as he has the support of his family and Trav. Mackey goes through some tough stuff, maybe more than one person should have to endure, but he is strong. When Mackey is broken and it starts look like he might not survive, Trav is thrown into their lives to fix it all. Mackey and his ragtag group of brothers and his adopted family have had it rough, but have always had each others backs. In The Marble Faun the pastoral mode becomes a symbol of the modern solipsistic state.Review 1: This incredible book is poetry in music form. He stands fixed in a disposessed garden-isolated in his own consciousness. The things that the Faun knows but can’t know are those things which modern history has deprived him of the capacity to know. ‘Sad for things I know, yet cannot know,’ his marbelized Faun muses in ‘an old garden’ through a progression of poems ordered according to the conventional English eclogue by the cycle of the seasons and the hours of the day. Read Professor of English at Louisiana State University, writes that “Faulkner’s first published book, The Marble Faun, is a carefully constructed exercise in pastoral, ironically implying the rejection of pastoral by modernity, and, I believe, more particularly in his own vision.

Simpson, former Boyd Professor and William A. ” In “Faulkner and the Southern Symbolism of Pastoral,” published in The Mississippi Quarterly, vol. As literary critic Cleanth Brooks writes in William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond (Louisiana State University Press, 1978), the young Faulkner “may have borrowed his metrical pattern (octosyllabic couplets) from William Butler Yeats’s ‘The Song of the Happy Shepherd’. “” appears in William Faulkner’s first book, a sequence of poems titled The Marble Faun (The Four Seas Company, 1924).

They pass, they pass, and know not whither. The far world’s shaggy flanks and breast,Īnd many’s the bead of a life she’s told Īnd many’s the fair one she’s seen wither:

Beneath the stain amy lane