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 127
... entered a downtown office building and ascended twenty floors to an opaque glass door lettered Callaghan Mines and entered and passed with some difficulty a chromium- finished office girl and faced at last across a desk flat and ...
... entered a downtown office building and ascended twenty floors to an opaque glass door lettered Callaghan Mines and entered and passed with some difficulty a chromium- finished office girl and faced at last across a desk flat and ...
Pàgina 148
... entered the peni- tentiary at an age scarcely out of adolescence and some years younger than that at which even his prolific and monogamous kind married - a woman who sat clutching the trunk of the tree , her stockingless feet in a pair ...
... entered the peni- tentiary at an age scarcely out of adolescence and some years younger than that at which even his prolific and monogamous kind married - a woman who sat clutching the trunk of the tree , her stockingless feet in a pair ...
Pàgina 211
... entered a double - chinned woman of no especial age more than forty , with blondined hair and a lilac satin gown not quite clean . " Good evening , " she said . " Stranger in town ? " " Yes , " he told her . " I asked a taxi - driver ...
... entered a double - chinned woman of no especial age more than forty , with blondined hair and a lilac satin gown not quite clean . " Good evening , " she said . " Stranger in town ? " " Yes , " he told her . " I asked a taxi - driver ...
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