The Wild PalmsRandom House, 1939 - 337 pàgines In the rural wasteland of the South two inmates escape from a penitentiary, and two lovers, Harry Wilbourne and Charlotte Rittenmeyer, run away together. These two stories, played against each other, portray four desperate people trying to flee from poverty, decadence, and the violence of a world from which there is no escape. |
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Pàgina 36
... already impreg- nated with the smell of sugar and bananas and hemp from the docks , like inert wisps of fog or even paint . A wooden gate hung slightly awry , beside it a wire bell pull which under Flint's hand produced a remote mel ...
... already impreg- nated with the smell of sugar and bananas and hemp from the docks , like inert wisps of fog or even paint . A wooden gate hung slightly awry , beside it a wire bell pull which under Flint's hand produced a remote mel ...
Pàgina 102
... already lay on one cot , his shoes off , smoking . " Go on , " he said . " Take it . Charlotte says she dont want to sleep any more . " She came out at that moment , carrying a pad of paper , a tin cup , a new japanned color box . " We ...
... already lay on one cot , his shoes off , smoking . " Go on , " he said . " Take it . Charlotte says she dont want to sleep any more . " She came out at that moment , carrying a pad of paper , a tin cup , a new japanned color box . " We ...
Pàgina 271
... already turning to the woman again , his mouth already open to repeat as the dreamy buzzing voice of the man came to him and he turning once more , in a terrific and absolutely unbearable exasperation , crying , " Flood ? What flood ...
... already turning to the woman again , his mouth already open to repeat as the dreamy buzzing voice of the man came to him and he turning once more , in a terrific and absolutely unbearable exasperation , crying , " Flood ? What flood ...
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aint already began believe beneath black wind blinked boat breath Buckner Cajan cant carrying ceased Charlotte cigarette coat cold cottonfield cried damned dark deputy doctor dollars door drink eyes face feet flat glare going gunwales hand hard Harry head hear heard hell hip boots hold instant knew levee light Listen live looked McCord move neath never niggers night nurses oleander once Orleans outrage paddle palm pantomime pilot house pirogue pistol plump convict quietly realised returned Rittenmeyer seemed sitting skiff sleep smell smoke snow sorghum sound squatted stared steadily steamboat stood stopped stove talking tall convict tell thinking thought told took train trees truck trying turned vanished Vicksburg violently voice wait waked walk Warden watched wife Wilbourne wild Wild Palms wind window woman wont