Absalom, Absalom! (Hardcover, New Ed)

There's a Faulkner market - no question of that. But for those on its outskirts, watching eagerly for growth, development, maturity in his work, there is disappointment, here as in Pylon. There is more in the sinister, sultry atmosphere to recall Sanctuary. But the story is indirect to the point of artificiality; the style marred by hyphenated words, manufactured words, until you lose the sense in the glut of verbiage. A depraved story of degenerates in a Southern family gone to seed - of Colonel Sutpen building his tribe by incest, perversion, miscegenation and lust. There is tragedy here, but the drawing is so out of scale that the effect is weakened. - In spite of all this, the book - on Faulkner's name - will sell, and rent. (Kirkus Reviews)

The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson 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."


From the Trade Paperback edition.

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1993
First published:	November 1993
Authors:	William Faulkner
Foreword by:	John Jeremiah Sullivan
Dimensions:	211 x 144 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	432
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-60072-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-679-60072-8
Barcode:	9780679600725

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