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ABSALOM, ABSALOM! tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. Sutpen was a man...

He was the most beautiful man in Israel, but beauty is a fragile shield against the silence of a King. Absalom, the golden prince of Jerusalem, has everything: the adoration of the tribes, the lineage of a warrior-king, and a mane of hair so legendary it is weighed annually against the royal standard. But beneath the silver chariots and the public adoration, a cold fury is hardening. When his sister Tamar is brutalized and King David—the man after God's own heart—chooses the path of silence over justice, the bond between father and son is irrevocably severed.