Absalom, Absalom!
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A cornerstone of American modernist literature, Absalom, Absalom! chronicles the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, a self-made man who arrives in Mississippi before the Civil War with a grand design to forge a dynasty from sheer will and ambition. Faulkner constructs the narrative through multiple, overlapping voices — narrators who piece together Sutpen's story decades after his downfall — creating a richly layered and at times unreliable portrait of the antebellum South and its moral catastrophes. The novel uncovers how the sins of slavery, pride, and racial denial corrode an entire family across generations, drawing a devastating parallel between Sutpen's doomed house and the South itself. Dense, poetic, and relentlessly ambitious in its prose style, it stands as one of the most powerful indictments of Southern mythology ever written, and is widely regarded as Faulkner's greatest achievement.
Author: William Faulkner
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A cornerstone of American modernist literature, Absalom, Absalom! chronicles the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, a self-made man who arrives in Mississippi before the Civil War with a grand design to forge a dynasty from sheer will and ambition. Faulkner constructs the narrative through multiple, overlapping voices — narrators who piece together Sutpen's story decades after his downfall — creating a richly layered and at times unreliable portrait of the antebellum South and its moral catastrophes. The novel uncovers how the sins of slavery, pride, and racial denial corrode an entire family across generations, drawing a devastating parallel between Sutpen's doomed house and the South itself. Dense, poetic, and relentlessly ambitious in its prose style, it stands as one of the most powerful indictments of Southern mythology ever written, and is widely regarded as Faulkner's greatest achievement.