NOBEL PRIZE WINNER ⢠Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippiâfrom one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. One of The Atlantic âs Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years âRead, read, read. Read everythingâtrash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! Youâll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, youâll find out. If itâs not, throw it out the window.â âWilliam Faulkner Absalom, Absalom! is Faulknerâs epic tale of Thomas Sutpen, a man who comes to the South in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, âwho wanted sons and the sons destroyed him.â
