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Absalom, Absalom! Paperback – 4 April 1995

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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.
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    978-0099475118
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    VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  5. Publication date
    4 April 1995
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
  8. Print length
    384 pages
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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

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET; 1st edition (4 April 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099475111
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099475118
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
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William Faulkner

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Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank.

Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925.

His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler.

William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962.

Photo by Carl Van Vechten [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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1.0 out of 5 stars I'm really glad I gave it a go and interestingly I bought ...
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Gosh this is complex stuff. Up there with James Joyce. I actually read 80% of it before I gave up , realising that I didn't care about any of the characters and therefore the struggle to comprehend the saga was probably not worthwhile. I'm really glad I gave it a go and interestingly I bought Finnegan's Wake while I was reading it, which means, I guess, that i became even more interested in the complexity of language.
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Gio
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Flaulkner Novel
Reviewed in Canada on 10 April 2023
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Great characters and very full story
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fesselnde Südstaatengeschichte
Reviewed in Germany on 14 November 2022
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Ein für mich im Englischen schwer zu lesendes Buch weil ungewohnter Erzählstil; inhaltlich jedoch fesselnd.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Maravillosa compra
Reviewed in Spain on 9 March 2019
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Estoy contentísima de haber comprado este libro.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sophisticated gossip
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2018
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That is in many ways just what it is. Composed of recall, hearsay and speculation it spans maybe one hundred years and several narrator s all of whom are represented by the same drawn out crowded style that straddles stream of consciousness and a (faux?) naïve urge to include every detail or consider every possibility. And speculation generates as meaty a narrative as recall. All you can imagine, save for Canadian Shreve, in a langorous southern drawl. Sometimes the style is its own reward, in the shape of a particularly poignant or original image, or a gem of homespun wisdom. Sometimes it seems to frustrate, getting in the way of a good story - a gripping story - of which the bones are all too slowly fleshed out, but that's the South!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Absalom, Absalom!
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J'aime bien cet Auteur! L'histoire et son déroulement sont bien exprimés. Je reprendrais d'autres titres de cet auteur très prochainement.
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