Description
Title: Absalom, Absalom: Vintage Classics Edition
Author: FAULKNER WILLIAM
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 19/01/1995
Imprint: VINTAGE UK
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
Faulkner’s gripping, dark tale of pride and prejudice in the Deep South
This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner’s elaborate descriptive syntax.
Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with 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 black 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, his own troop to fight in the Civil War… but Sutpen returns from the conflict to find his estate in ruins and his family collapsing. Secrets from his own past threaten to ruin the lives of his children and destroy everything he has worked for.
ISBN: 9780099475118
Weight: 266g
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 384
Edition: 01