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 137
... instant of virginity , it was the instant of virginity : that condition , fact , that does not actually exist except during the instant you know you are losing it ; it lasted as long as it did be- cause I was too old , I waited too ...
... instant of virginity , it was the instant of virginity : that condition , fact , that does not actually exist except during the instant you know you are losing it ; it lasted as long as it did be- cause I was too old , I waited too ...
Pàgina 156
... instant to the hearing he was also seeing some- thing such as he had never seen before . This was that the sharp line where the phosphorescent water met the darkness was now about ten feet higher than it had been an instant before and ...
... instant to the hearing he was also seeing some- thing such as he had never seen before . This was that the sharp line where the phosphorescent water met the darkness was now about ten feet higher than it had been an instant before and ...
Pàgina 234
... instant during which the mound , the island continued to fade slowly into the mist which seemed to enclose the skiff in weightless and impalpable wool like a precious or fragile bauble or jewel , the convict squatted not in dismay but ...
... instant during which the mound , the island continued to fade slowly into the mist which seemed to enclose the skiff in weightless and impalpable wool like a precious or fragile bauble or jewel , the convict squatted not in dismay but ...
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