I would call this book one of my white whales, and it is, but that’s a strange category given how many times I’ve read Moby-Dick. Instead, this book is my Absalom Absalom!. I was supposed to read this for a Faulkner class in college and I still have the same copy, where I stopped on page 30 and made a mark. I also still have the various underlinings I made all those years ago to fake my reading journals due with the book. I remember being called […]
This is the kind of man Boon Hogganbeck was.
This novel is about an older man telling his grandson about the time that he and two of his father’s help/hands run off to Memphis in a car no one wanted in 1905. It starts there and then gets pretty crazy. It’s been probably 15 years since I have read a new Faulkner. I teach As I Lay Dying from time to time in my senior class as well as “A Rose for Emily,” but this was one I had never read before. I think when […]