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 74
... carrying heavy towsacks and bundles wrapped in quilts . The sound of the guitar had not ceased and now the convicts saw him - a young , black , lean - hipped man , the guitar slung by a piece of cotton plow line about his neck . He ...
... carrying heavy towsacks and bundles wrapped in quilts . The sound of the guitar had not ceased and now the convicts saw him - a young , black , lean - hipped man , the guitar slung by a piece of cotton plow line about his neck . He ...
Pàgina 184
... Carrying the stuff will warm us up some . " The commissary was another iron single room filled with the iron cold and lighted by the hushed iron glare of the snow beyond a single window . The cold in it was a dead cold . It was like ...
... Carrying the stuff will warm us up some . " The commissary was another iron single room filled with the iron cold and lighted by the hushed iron glare of the snow beyond a single window . The cold in it was a dead cold . It was like ...
Pàgina 270
... carrying the baby and dressed again for departure in the faded tunic and the sunbon- net , emerged from the house , carrying ( the man carried several other things but the convict saw nothing else ) the paper - wrapped bundle which the ...
... carrying the baby and dressed again for departure in the faded tunic and the sunbon- net , emerged from the house , carrying ( the man carried several other things but the convict saw nothing else ) the paper - wrapped bundle which the ...
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