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Word: coldfield (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1936-1936
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...main story deals with Thomas Sutpen, an ambitious planter who settled near Jefferson, Miss, in 1833. Another tale deals with Quentin Compson, a Harvard freshman born and raised in Jefferson, who. in 1910, tried to figure out what had lain behind the Sutpen tragedy. A third deals with Rosa Coldfield, Sutpen's sister-in-law, and with Quentin's father, who told Quentin what they knew of the Sutpens. (Still a fourth story can be detected only by readers of The Sound and the Fury.) Thus readers must not only figure out what happened to the Sutpens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Cypher | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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