Absalom, Absalom! Contributor(s): Faulkner, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679732187 ISBN-13: 9780679732181 Publisher: Vintage
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions 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." Click for more in this series: Vintage International |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 90050211 |
Lexile Measure: 1570(Not Available) |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.24" W x 8.1" L (0.50 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Deep South - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Christian Century 04/30/2014 pg. 35 |
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." |
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