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 243
... sitting on the skiff , the gobbling faces no longer watching them now , the convict gnawing slowly and painfully at the thick sandwich , hunched , his face laid sideways to the food and parallel to the earth as a dog chews ; the ...
... sitting on the skiff , the gobbling faces no longer watching them now , the convict gnawing slowly and painfully at the thick sandwich , hunched , his face laid sideways to the food and parallel to the earth as a dog chews ; the ...
Pàgina 245
William Faulkner. thought , sitting beside the woman on the upturned skiff , the baby nursing again , apparently looking too out across the water where , a mile away on either hand ... sitting beside the woman on the upturned skiff...
William Faulkner. thought , sitting beside the woman on the upturned skiff , the baby nursing again , apparently looking too out across the water where , a mile away on either hand ... sitting beside the woman on the upturned skiff...
Pàgina 314
... sitting on a mudflat beside the bright glitter of the river's mouth with a thin line of drying garments across the after well deck . The sun was setting behind it now and he could not distinguish much , but the next morning he ...
... sitting on a mudflat beside the bright glitter of the river's mouth with a thin line of drying garments across the after well deck . The sun was setting behind it now and he could not distinguish much , but the next morning he ...
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