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 13
... stopped dead on the stairs in his old- fashioned list slippers , thinking swiftly : Yes . Yes . Some- thing which the entire race of men , males , has done to her or she believes has done to her . The knocking came again now , as if the ...
... stopped dead on the stairs in his old- fashioned list slippers , thinking swiftly : Yes . Yes . Some- thing which the entire race of men , males , has done to her or she believes has done to her . The knocking came again now , as if the ...
Pàgina 64
... stopped . The trusty descended from the cab and came back and dragged two shovels from among their feet , the blades clashing against the serpentining of the chain about their ankles . " What is it ? " one said . " What are you fixing ...
... stopped . The trusty descended from the cab and came back and dragged two shovels from among their feet , the blades clashing against the serpentining of the chain about their ankles . " What is it ? " one said . " What are you fixing ...
Pàgina 98
... stopped at a drug store and they had a flashlight now , the cab crawling along a suburban and opulent curb while Charlotte , leaning across McCord , played the flash- light upon the passing midnight lawns . " There's one , " she said ...
... stopped at a drug store and they had a flashlight now , the cab crawling along a suburban and opulent curb while Charlotte , leaning across McCord , played the flash- light upon the passing midnight lawns . " There's one , " she said ...
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