Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text

ISBN: 0679732187

Author: Faulkner, William

Condition: New

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.One of The Atlantics Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsRead, 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! Youll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, youll find out. If its not, throw it out the window. -William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! is Faulkners 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.