Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. ...
"Although it takes its inspiration from the life and correspondence of the great Irish satirist Jonathan Swift, the book is set during and after the First World War."--P. [4], cover.
