Absalom, Absalom! (The Corrected Text) - Softcover

Faulkner, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394747755 ISBN 13: 9780394747750

Publisher: Vintage, 1987

Synopsis

Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children. But in after the chaos of Civil War, secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for.

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From the Inside Flap:

The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him."

"From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author:

William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and As I Lay Dying, among many other  remarkable books. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France’s Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0394747755
• ISBN 13: 9780394747750
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 485