Absalom, Absalom!
Contributors: Herman Finkelstein Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Random house
Published: 1936
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Sutpen family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction; Plantation life -- Fiction; Mississippi -- Fiction
Description: 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."