{"id":19190,"date":"2011-12-22T04:34:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T04:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19190"},"modified":"2011-12-22T04:34:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T04:34:14","slug":"absalom-absalom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19190","title":{"rendered":"Absalom, Absalom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/48370\/absalom-absalom-by-william-faulkner\/9780679600725\" target=\"_blank\">Absalom, Absalom!<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Random House<br \/>\n1936<br \/>\n432 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-679-73218-1<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Faulkner\" target=\"_blank\">William Faulkner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/48370\/absalom-absalom-by-william-faulkner\/9780679600725\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/images\/dyn\/cover\/?source=9780679732181&amp;height=450&amp;.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First published in 1936, <em>Absalom, Absalom!<\/em> is William Faulkner\u2019s ninth novel and one of his most admired. It tells the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded attempt to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in 1830. Although his grand design is ultimately destroyed by his own sons, a century later the figure of Sutpen continues to haunt young Quentin Compson, who is obsessed with his family legacy and that of the Old South. \u201cFaulkner\u2019s novels have the quality of being lived, absorbed, remembered rather than merely observed,\u201d noted Malcolm Cowley. \u201c<em>Absalom, Absalom! <\/em>is structurally the soundest of all the novels in the Yoknapatawpha series\u2014and it gains power in retrospect.\u201d This edition follows the text of Absalom, Absalom! as corrected in 1986 under the direction of Faulkner expert Noel Polk and features a new Foreword by John Jeremiah Sullivan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absalom, Absalom! Random House 1936 432 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-679-73218-1 William Faulkner First published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner\u2019s ninth novel and one of his most admired. It tells the story of Thomas Sutpen and his ruthless, single-minded attempt to forge a dynasty in Jefferson, Mississippi, in 1830. Although his grand design is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15],"tags":[490],"class_list":["post-19190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-william-faulkner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}