NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson Mississippi--from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century. One of The Atlantic s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Read read read. Read everything--trash classics good and bad and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good you ll find out. If it s not throw it out the window. --William Faulkner Absalom Absalom! is Faulkner s 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 who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him.