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 63
... truck passed a negro cabin . The water was up to the window ledges . A woman clutching two children squatted on the ... truck , her voice carrying faint and melodious across the brown water , becoming fainter and fainter as the ...
... truck passed a negro cabin . The water was up to the window ledges . A woman clutching two children squatted on the ... truck , her voice carrying faint and melodious across the brown water , becoming fainter and fainter as the ...
Pàgina 64
... truck 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 ...
... truck 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 ...
Pàgina 65
... truck crawled on , the guard and the trusty feeling out the road ahead with the re- versed shovels , the second guard at the wheel , the twenty - two convicts packed like sardines into the truck bed and padlocked by the ankles to the ...
... truck crawled on , the guard and the trusty feeling out the road ahead with the re- versed shovels , the second guard at the wheel , the twenty - two convicts packed like sardines into the truck bed and padlocked by the ankles to the ...
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