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A novel by this author, whose ninth chapter reads, “Because he missed it. He missed it completely,” is partially narrated by the sewing machine agent V. K. Ratliff. A character created by this author, who repeats “It won’t balance” about an object formed by the “Chuck Chuck Chuck” of an adze, has his broken leg (10[1])cast in cement.A (10[1])girl impregnated by the farmhand Lafe (10[1])is scammed out of abortion-inducing medicine in a novel (10[1])by this author, who paired The Town and The Hamlet in a trilogy about the Snopes family. A man (10[1])buys (10[1])false teeth in a novel by this author in which Vardaman says, “My mother is a fish.” (10[2])Cash slowly builds a coffin for his mother in a novel by this author set in Yoknapatawpha (10[1])County. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about the Bundren family in As I Lay Dying. ■END■

ANSWER: William Faulkner [or William Cuthbert Faulkner]
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