Absalom, Absalom!

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippi--from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century.

"Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window." --William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom! is Faulkner's epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, a man who comes to the South 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."

Author: William Faulkner
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/30/1991
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.24w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780679732181

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.1
Point Value: 25
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 56995 / Absalom, Absalom! the Corrected Text


Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 04/30/2014 pg. 35

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.