Olsson's: Buyer's Corner

Olsson's is a locally Owned & Operated, Independent chain of six book and recorded music stores in the Washington, D.C. area, started by John Olsson in 1972. Each week the Head Book Buyer blogs about interesting new books that are available.

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Joe Murphy on Absalom, Absalom!

Hi Everyone-

Random Summer PromotionWell, I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel like a drowned rat. Thank heavens we seem to be done with three straight days of torrential downpours. I need to get back to bailing out my poor basement (the good news--I came across some books I always meant to get around to), so I'd like to make just a brief mention of the ongoing Random Summer buy two-get-one-free sale on all titles from Vintage, Anchor, and Broadway. Great books, incredible deal: stop by now!

Book CoverAmong the great authors they have is William Faulkner. Faulker wrote too many of the twentieth century's greatest novels to even list, but my personal favorite is Absalom, Absalom!, the story of Thomas Sutpen's attempt to establish a dynasty in Faulkner mythical Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi... at any price. Book CoverIt's Faulkner at his very best: the most baroque, beautiful prose, the greatest sense of the truly epic, and the most towering, unforgettable, and sometimes insane characters. It's also an important link to Quentin Compson's state of mind in The Sound and the Fury. It's on my very shortlist for great American novel. So take advantage of the Vintage sale and give it a try!

See you in the stores,

Joe Murphy
Head Book Buyer

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Alexis Akre, a DC-area native, has worked at Olsson's for almost six years. She received her BA in English from Barnard College, and lived in New York for several years. Since her return to her home town, Alexis has honed her gift for skewering both vapidity and pretension with concise, well-worded psychological assessment. She can be seen tooling around town on her minty green bike, reading one of the hundreds of books she has stacked in her home, and teaching her cat to do tricks.


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