Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner

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Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner

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ISBN:
9780099475118
Author:
William Faulkner
Series:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Publication Date:
1995
Format:
Paperback

This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner's elaborate descriptive syntax. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate…

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Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner

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This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner's elaborate descriptive syntax. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with 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 black 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, his own troop to fight in the Civil War... but Sutpen returns from the conflict to find his estate in ruins and his family collapsing.

Secrets from his own past threaten to ruin the lives of his children and destroy everything he has worked for.

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