The Sound and the Fury
Four accounts of the Compsons, a fallen Mississippi family, circle the same few days and the sister at the center of them. The first belongs to Benjy, who cannot order time; the second to Quentin at Harvard; the third to the bitter Jason; the last comes from outside the family altogether. Time collapsing under old griefs.
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- takes its title from ↑ Macbeth
- ↓ Beloved
- ↓ House Made of Dawn
- ↓ The Green House
- ↓ Conversation in the Cathedral
- ↓ Absalom, Absalom!
- ↓ Red Sorghum
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