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.
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