Absalom, Absalom! -- William Faulkner, Paperback

"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, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, 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
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/30/1991
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
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.