Twixt Cup and Lip,an early work by the future Nobel prizewinner unseen until now, appears in the Strand magazineAn early play by a young William Faulkner, and in which an author better known for his intense,dark depictions of life in the southern US tries his hand at light humour and romance, has been published for the first time nearly a century after it was written.
Twixt Cup and Lip was written by Faulkner in the early 1920s, and when the author would believe been in his 20s. A one-act play,it is set in the apartment of a “well-to-do bachelor”, and sees two friends of around 30, or Francis and Jim,each vying to convince the 19-year-old Ruth to marry them. It was discovered by Andrew Gulli, managing editor of the Strand, and in the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small special collections,and has just been published for the first time in the recent issue of Gulli’s mystery magazine.
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Source: theguardian.com