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The Sound and the Fury
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781667662237
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Aug 13 2025
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Southern family teeters on the edge of collapse in the decades following the Civil War. Through the shifting minds of three brothers-one cognitively disabled, one embittered and neurotic, the third cynical and self-destructive-the tangled legacy of the Compson family comes into focus. Their sister's rebellion and shame become the axis on which the family's downfall turns, as time fractures and history repeats itself in echoes and fragments.
Told through multiple perspectives, each shaped by memory, pain, and loss, the novel explores the weight of tradition, the failure of communication, and the decay of old Southern values. Reality itself becomes unreliable as each brother tries and fails to impose meaning on a world slipping beyond control. Anchored in one family's intimate suffering, the story becomes a powerful portrait of human fragility and the consequences of silence.
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