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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The skiff had paid off and now ran with the current again . It seemed again to spring from immobility into incredible speed , and he thought he must already be miles away from where his companion had quitted him , though actually he had ...
The skiff had paid off and now ran with the current again . It seemed again to spring from immobility into incredible speed , and he thought he must already be miles away from where his companion had quitted him , though actually he had ...
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that the paddle was gone ; this time when the skiff hurled him forward he had flung the paddle not into it but beyond it . “ It's right there in them brush tops , ” the woman said . “ You can get it . Here . Catch a holt of this .
that the paddle was gone ; this time when the skiff hurled him forward he had flung the paddle not into it but beyond it . “ It's right there in them brush tops , ” the woman said . “ You can get it . Here . Catch a holt of this .
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he went on , driving the skiff with muscles which had been too tired so long they had quit feeling it , as when a man has had bad luck for so long that he ceases to believe it is even bad , let alone luck .
he went on , driving the skiff with muscles which had been too tired so long they had quit feeling it , as when a man has had bad luck for so long that he ceases to believe it is even bad , let alone luck .
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