Above the Treetops - The True Story of William Faulkner and Bobby Little, the Son He Never Had [first edition]

A Magical Story of the Deep South Above the Treetops is the true story of novelist William Faulkner s heartwarming relationship with a young boy named Bobby Little, who grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. The book opens with Faulkner taking the five-year-old Bobby up in his airplane. They fly just above the treetops over Oxford, over the Ole Miss campus, and over the surrounding countryside giving the young boy a wondrous view of the world laid out before him. In the years that followed, Faulkner taught Bobby not only how to fly the plane, but perhaps more importantly, how to view the world in a unique way. The William Faulkner that Bobby Little came to know and love through the years is quite a different character than the one put forth in academic manuals about the author s life. Above the Treetops presents the real William Faulkner - the flesh and blood character who, despite all his eccentricities and weaknesses, was a kind, caring, and adventurous soul, especially as seen through the eyes of an admiring child. Award-winning author Jack Sacco interviewed Dr. Bobby Little now a retired ophthalmologist, age 82, living in Gulfport, Mississippi at length to gather the facts as he remembered them and to gain never-before-revealed insights into the true world of William Faulkner. This is not another tired treatise on Faulkner s work as interpreted by those who never met the man. It is, instead, a true and magical story set in the deep South, revolving around one of the world s most famous and yet most private people.