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Absalom, Absalom! 
William Faulkner, 1936
Knopf Doubleday
313 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780679732181 


Summary
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. (From the publisher.)