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 74
... gunwales with negroes and a scattering of white people nursing bundles on their laps . When the engine shut off the faint plinking of a guitar came across the water . The skiffs warped in and unloaded ; the con- victs watched the men ...
... gunwales with negroes and a scattering of white people nursing bundles on their laps . When the engine shut off the faint plinking of a guitar came across the water . The skiffs warped in and unloaded ; the con- victs watched the men ...
Pàgina 172
... gunwales and a tiny thread of blood creeping down her chin from her chewed lip , and he looking down at her in a kind of furious desperation . " How far will I have to walk ? ” she said . " I dont know , I tell you ! " he cried . " But ...
... gunwales and a tiny thread of blood creeping down her chin from her chewed lip , and he looking down at her in a kind of furious desperation . " How far will I have to walk ? ” she said . " I dont know , I tell you ! " he cried . " But ...
Pàgina 256
... teeth and claws too , accepting this , squatting in the pirogue , clutching both gunwales , rigidly immobile as though he had an egg filled with nitroglycerin in his mouth and scarcely breathing , thinking , If that's it 256 OLD MAN.
... teeth and claws too , accepting this , squatting in the pirogue , clutching both gunwales , rigidly immobile as though he had an egg filled with nitroglycerin in his mouth and scarcely breathing , thinking , If that's it 256 OLD MAN.
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