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Absalom, Absalom
(Paperback, 1987)
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Author: William Faulkner
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! is often considered to be Faulkner's greatest book, and one of his most compelling...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0394747755
ISBN-13: 9780394747750
Jan 1987
Publisher: Vintage Books
485 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
ABSALOM, ABSALOM! is often considered to be Faulkner's greatest book, and one of his most compelling explorations of race, gender, and the burdens of the past. The plot revolves around the character of Thomas Sutpen, son of poor whites in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Densely written and notoriously "difficult," the novel explores the question of why Sutpen's son, Henry, killed Charles Bon, his friend and classmate, and the suitor of his sister, Judith. The action shifts from the early 19th century, when this event took place, to the "present" (1909-1910), when Quentin Compson, a student at Harvard, becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about his ancestor Sutpen--and hence about his family's past--and the relevance of that truth to the present.
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that--a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them."
Industry Reviews
"'Absalom, Absalom!' is no Southern costume drama about bygone times. It has an all-American theme and a present-day relevance. Sutpen's virtues are those of a typical twentieth-century man. So are his vices--his dismissal of the past, his commitment to the future, and his confidence that, with courage and know-how, he can accomplish literally everything."
Cleanth Brooks
"The final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent."
review - Clifton Fadiman
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Other Editions
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Book, 1986 - $8.00
Paperback, 1972 - $1.50 Save 85%
Paperback, 1990 - $0.75 Save 94%
Hardcover, 1997 - $16.22 Save 34%
Hardcover, 1993 - $8.00 Save 60%
Book, 1987 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Hardcover, 1991 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Book, 1972 - $0.75
Hardcover, 2002 - $27.85
Hardcover, 1999 - $16.00 Save 37%
Hardcover, 1990 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
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