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 118
... Hold me ! Hold me hard , Harry ! This is what it's for , what it all was for , what we were paying for : so we could be to- gether , sleep together every night : not just to eat and evacuate and sleep warm so we can get up and eat and ...
... Hold me ! Hold me hard , Harry ! This is what it's for , what it all was for , what we were paying for : so we could be to- gether , sleep together every night : not just to eat and evacuate and sleep warm so we can get up and eat and ...
Pàgina 286
... hold on too . You've got to do most of it for a while . Just a little while . The am- bulance will be here soon , but you must stay here and hurt now . Do you hear ? You cant go back now . " " Then take the knife and cut it out of me ...
... hold on too . You've got to do most of it for a while . Just a little while . The am- bulance will be here soon , but you must stay here and hurt now . Do you hear ? You cant go back now . " " Then take the knife and cut it out of me ...
Pàgina 287
... hold on . You will have to hold on a long time . Can you do it ? " " Yes . But go . Go quick . We've got enough money for you to get to Mobile . You can lose yourself quick there ; they cant find you there . But go . Get to hell away ...
... hold on . You will have to hold on a long time . Can you do it ? " " Yes . But go . Go quick . We've got enough money for you to get to Mobile . You can lose yourself quick there ; they cant find you there . But go . Get to hell away ...
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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