Book Club: Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (Part 1 of 3)

First published in 1936 and one of the key novels that led to Faulkner later winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is at once an epic of historical fiction and a Modernist narrative of mixed points of view. The novel features a central character, Thomas Sutphen, who ambitiously works from lowly origins to obtain the dream of establishing a plantation dynasty, and finding he is his own worst enemy when it comes to building a family that will make that dream truly possible. The story traces a lifetime spanning the Antebellum South, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.

Our guest discussion leader is Ron Luce, a retired professor of American literature.