Shabbat Reading: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!

#whatireadovershabbat William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! (1936; Vintage, 1972)

Absalom, Absalom! has been called the great Southern novel. All I know is that it’s great. Ferocious, hateful, beautiful, full of clues (a detective story) and prophecy, but a novel, after all, that gets you by the scruff of the neck and drags you to the finish, like it or not. A Southern story, an American one, a tragedy—a bit of fossil, rough and cryptic.