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 19
... closed his eyes , insisting only that there be always an odd number in any mixed party which stayed there overnight unless the couple were strangers formally professing to be man and wife , as now , even though he knew better and knew ...
... closed his eyes , insisting only that there be always an odd number in any mixed party which stayed there overnight unless the couple were strangers formally professing to be man and wife , as now , even though he knew better and knew ...
Pàgina 119
... job was in a store which had been one of her first customers for the first figurines she had made . It included window- and showcase - dressing , so that her day sometimes began when the store closed in the afternoon and WILD PALMS 119.
... job was in a store which had been one of her first customers for the first figurines she had made . It included window- and showcase - dressing , so that her day sometimes began when the store closed in the afternoon and WILD PALMS 119.
Pàgina 320
... closed , " he said . " But if you still wish to make a statement , you may do so . " Now there was no sound at all , not even that of breathing that Wilbourne could hear save his own and that of the young lawyer beside him , as ...
... closed , " he said . " But if you still wish to make a statement , you may do so . " Now there was no sound at all , not even that of breathing that Wilbourne could hear save his own and that of the young lawyer beside him , as ...
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