| Absalom, Absalom! Contributor(s): Faulkner, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679732187 ISBN-13: 9780679732181 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1991 Annotation: 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." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 90050211 |
| Lexile Measure: 1570 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.24" W x 8.1" (0.50 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Deep South - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 56995 Reading Level: 9.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 25.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Read, 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 You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window." --William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom is Faulkner's epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who comes to Jefferson, Mississippi, 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." |