Faulkner, William

Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text

New York: Random House, 1986. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #2354937
ISBN: 0394556348

First printing of 50th anniversary edition with corrected text. Jacket price clipped, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.

313 pp. Fold-out map follows text. 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."

Price: $50.00