Absalom, Absalom!: William Faulkner (Vintage classics) - Softcover

Faulkner, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099475111 ISBN 13: 9780099475118

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 1995

Synopsis

Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by 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 negro 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. But in after the chaos of Civil War, secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for.

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Review:

"The novel in which Faulkner most profoundly and completely says what he has to say about the South and the human condition" (Walter Allen)

"For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterisation, humour and tragic intensity [Faulkner's Works] are without equal in our time and country" (Robert Penn Warren)

"For all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made which made for the greatness of our classics" (Ralph Ellison)

"The magnitude of Faulkner's characters lies in their blood and bone and sinew: the exquisite specificity of their human fallibility... Faulkner seemed incapable of separating intimate character from universal truth, and this rough refusal - both humble and defiant - was at the root of his force as a writer... No other American writer has achieved such staggering heights of form" (Boston Globe)

"Heart-pinching" (New York Times)

From the Publisher:

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0099475111
• ISBN 13: 9780099475118
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384