The Wild Palms'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 76
Among the first to disembark was one of the penitentiary deputy wardens , followed closely by the plump convict and another white man- -a small man with a gaunt unshaven wan face still wearing an expression of incredulous outrage .
Among the first to disembark was one of the penitentiary deputy wardens , followed closely by the plump convict and another white man- -a small man with a gaunt unshaven wan face still wearing an expression of incredulous outrage .
Pàgina 256
... mess violent with pepper and mostly fish considerably high , the chicory - thickened coffee ) and , shirtless , followed the little scuttling bobbing bright - eyed rotten - toothed man down the crude ladder and into the pirogue .
... mess violent with pepper and mostly fish considerably high , the chicory - thickened coffee ) and , shirtless , followed the little scuttling bobbing bright - eyed rotten - toothed man down the crude ladder and into the pirogue .
Pàgina 289
... looking nickel - plated revolver such as you could find in almost any pawnshop and which , as far as serviceability was concerned , should still have been there , and followed by the gray - faced Medusaheaded woman in a shawl .
... looking nickel - plated revolver such as you could find in almost any pawnshop and which , as far as serviceability was concerned , should still have been there , and followed by the gray - faced Medusaheaded woman in a shawl .
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