Absalom, Absalom!
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."
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."
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780679732181
Publish date: 01-02-1991
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Southern,
Gothic,
Southern Gothic,
Fiction
Wow! What a story. I was warned by numerous reviews that it wouldn't be easy--it wasn't. My approach to it was to read the Wikipedia summary and get the basic plot along with all the characters straight in my head before diving in. It worked out pretty well. Faulkner gives away most of the plot with...
i wouldn't start here, with faulkner, but this is probably as good as it gets, and arguably his great american novelreading was more like seeing, and once done, it was like i'd experienced it all myself
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