soldier's pay Author:william faulkner Soldier's Pay is a Nobel Prize Winner William Faulkner's first novel. It is the book that made Faulkner's reputation and is as pertinent today when he wrote it. Soldier's Pay is not a book about war. It is a book about people as they are molded and formed by their part in war and its suffering. It is a work of disillusion and fulfillment, of... more » sensuality and beauty, of love and hate, and of all the human emotions that shake us. The poignancy of its characterization, the flawlessness of its motivation, and the profound truth of its meaning are for our age.« less