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Beautifully rejacketed, this is Faulkner's gripping, dark tale of pride and
prejudice in the Deep South
About: Absalom, Absalom!
Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by 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 negro 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. But in after the chaos of Civil War, secrets
from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for.
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