The Wild PalmsVintage Books, 1964 - 339 pàgines 'Between grief and nothing I will take grief'. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed with fatal injuries of the spirit.-Publisher's description. |
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Pàgina 5
... eyes in a face whose skin was drawn thin over prominent cheek- bones and a heavy jaw ( the doctor called it sullen at first , then he called it afraid ) , young , who sat all day long in a new cheap beach chair facing the water , in a ...
... eyes in a face whose skin was drawn thin over prominent cheek- bones and a heavy jaw ( the doctor called it sullen at first , then he called it afraid ) , young , who sat all day long in a new cheap beach chair facing the water , in a ...
Pàgina 107
... eyes did not laugh , the assured , predatory eyes of the still successful prom leader . " Not bad , " he said , " Do you " “ Thanks , ” Charlotte said . " Will you have some cof- fee ? " " Thanks , I've had breakfast . We were up at ...
... eyes did not laugh , the assured , predatory eyes of the still successful prom leader . " Not bad , " he said , " Do you " “ Thanks , ” Charlotte said . " Will you have some cof- fee ? " " Thanks , I've had breakfast . We were up at ...
Pàgina 284
... eyes closed , the nightgown ( that garment which she had never owned , never worn before ) twisted about her just under the arms , the body not sprawled , not abandoned , but on the contrary even a little tense . The whisper of the ...
... eyes closed , the nightgown ( that garment which she had never owned , never worn before ) twisted about her just under the arms , the body not sprawled , not abandoned , but on the contrary even a little tense . The whisper of the ...
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