{"title": "Absalom, Absalom!", "covers": [8292960, 10141548, 11553885, 12370438], "subject_places": ["Mississippi"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Plantation life", "Sutpen family (Fictitious characters)", "Facsimiles", "Textual Criticism", "American Manuscripts", "Sutpen family (Fictitious character)", "American Historical fiction", "American fiction", "Manuscripts", "Yaknapatawpha County (Imaginary place)", "Long Now Manual for Civilization", "Sutpen family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction", "Plantation life -- Fiction", "Mississippi -- Fiction", "American fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Mississippi, fiction", "Yoknapatawpha county (imaginary place), fiction", "Fiction, historical", "Fiction, family life", "Sutpen family (fictitious characters), fiction", "Large type books", "Fiction, historical, general", "Life Style", "Fictional works"], "subject_people": ["William Faulkner (1897-1962)"], "key": "/works/OL82928W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL21831A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that -- a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them.", "comment": "first sentence"}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_times": ["20th century"], "description": "The story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson 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.\"", "links": [{"title": "Absalom, Absalom! \u2013 Faulkner\u2019s Tapestry of the South", "url": "https://love-books-review.com/blog/absalom-absalom-william-faulkner/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "latest_revision": 33, "revision": 33, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-17T07:47:27.823890"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-04T16:53:13.116504"}}