{"product_id":"absalom-absalom-1","title":"Absalom, Absalom!","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner's elaborate descriptive syntax. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with 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 black butler.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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, his own troop to fight in the Civil War... but Sutpen returns from the conflict to find his estate in ruins and his family collapsing.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Secrets from his own past threaten to ruin the lives of his children and destroy everything he has worked for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e Published: UK, 1995\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e Pages: 384\u003cbr\u003e Language: English\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: 9781784874278\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 1784874272\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Faulkner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43853388873994,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/9780099475118.jpg?v=1669041256","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/absalom-absalom-1","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}