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 62
... quietly . ) set of the still rigid surface , from beneath which came a deep faint subaquean rumble which ( though none in the truck could have made the comparison ) sounded like a subway train passing far beneath the street and which ...
... quietly . ) set of the still rigid surface , from beneath which came a deep faint subaquean rumble which ( though none in the truck could have made the comparison ) sounded like a subway train passing far beneath the street and which ...
Pàgina 78
... quietly at a half- full quart of whiskey sitting on the table . " How do you know he's drowned ? " the Warden said to the deputy . " How do you know he didn't just see his chance to escape , and took it ? ” " Escape where ? " the other ...
... quietly at a half- full quart of whiskey sitting on the table . " How do you know he's drowned ? " the Warden said to the deputy . " How do you know he didn't just see his chance to escape , and took it ? ” " Escape where ? " the other ...
Pàgina 265
... quietly above the thick rich- colored pristine cigar in his clean steady hand ) , what he knew , divined of it . It would be evening , the ninth evening , he and the woman on either side of their host's empty place at the evening meal ...
... quietly above the thick rich- colored pristine cigar in his clean steady hand ) , what he knew , divined of it . It would be evening , the ninth evening , he and the woman on either side of their host's empty place at the evening meal ...
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