Absalom, Absalom!

by Joseph R. Urgo and Noel Polk

Book Overview

Absalom, Absalom has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, 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." On another level, the book narrates the tragedy that befalls...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604735783
• ISBN13: 9781604735789
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"