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. |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 3 de 6.
Pàgina 243
... steamboat went on . At noon there were bowls of hot soup and bread and more coffee ; they ate this too , sitting side by side on the skiff , the grape vine still wrapped about the convict's wrist . The baby waked and nursed and slept ...
... steamboat went on . At noon there were bowls of hot soup and bread and more coffee ; they ate this too , sitting side by side on the skiff , the grape vine still wrapped about the convict's wrist . The baby waked and nursed and slept ...
Pàgina 244
... steamboat chuffed and thrust through a willow - choked gorge and emerged from it , and now the convict knew it was the River . He could believe it now — the tremendous reach , yellow and sleepy in the afternoon —— “ Because it's too big ...
... steamboat chuffed and thrust through a willow - choked gorge and emerged from it , and now the convict knew it was the River . He could believe it now — the tremendous reach , yellow and sleepy in the afternoon —— “ Because it's too big ...
Pàgina 246
... steamboat began to swing across the stream , its shadow swinging too , travelling long before it across the water , toward the vacant ridge of willowmassed earth empty of all life . There was nothing there at all , the convict could not ...
... steamboat began to swing across the stream , its shadow swinging too , travelling long before it across the water , toward the vacant ridge of willowmassed earth empty of all life . There was nothing there at all , the convict could not ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
actually aint already arms began believe beneath beside better boat body breath called cant carrying ceased Charlotte closed cold coming completely convict cried damned dark doctor dollars dont door drink entered eyes face feel feet four give going gone hand hard Harry head hear heard hold hundred instant It's keep knew later leave light Listen live looked McCord mean merely move never night officer once paddle passed perhaps plump presently quietly remember returned running seemed seen side sitting skiff sleep smell sound standing stood stopped talking tall tell That's thing thinking thought told took train trees trying turned voice wait walk Warden watched weeks wife Wilbourne wild wind window woman wont