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 51
... merely tilted and produced from among them , with the magical abruptness with which the little metal torpedo containing change from a sale emerges from its tube in a store , a leather wallet . It contained the stubs of five pari ...
... merely tilted and produced from among them , with the magical abruptness with which the little metal torpedo containing change from a sale emerges from its tube in a store , a leather wallet . It contained the stubs of five pari ...
Pàgina 161
... merely to keep the skiff intact and afloat among the houses and trees and dead animals ( the entire towns , stores , residences , parks and farm- yards , which leaped and played about him like fish ) , not trying to reach any ...
... merely to keep the skiff intact and afloat among the houses and trees and dead animals ( the entire towns , stores , residences , parks and farm- yards , which leaped and played about him like fish ) , not trying to reach any ...
Pàgina 266
... merely knowing it — better than he had ever done , who had not even known until now how good work , making money , could be ) yet it was not his life , he still and would ever be no more than the water bug upon the surface of the pond ...
... merely knowing it — better than he had ever done , who had not even known until now how good work , making money , could be ) yet it was not his life , he still and would ever be no more than the water bug upon the surface of the pond ...
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