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 20
... moved them - the sound of a bottle against a glass . " Just a minute , " the man named Harry said . He en- tered the ... move . He just heard the swift passage of the man's bare feet on the floor and then his voice , tense , not loud ...
... moved them - the sound of a bottle against a glass . " Just a minute , " the man named Harry said . He en- tered the ... move . He just heard the swift passage of the man's bare feet on the floor and then his voice , tense , not loud ...
Pàgina 68
... move toward it , they began to smell food and , turn- ing to look , saw an army field kitchen set up just inside the compress door . But they made no move , they waited until they were herded into line , they inched forward , their ...
... move toward it , they began to smell food and , turn- ing to look , saw an army field kitchen set up just inside the compress door . But they made no move , they waited until they were herded into line , they inched forward , their ...
Pàgina 287
... move at once . He was trying to remem- ber something out of a book , years ago , of Owen Wis- ter's , the whore in the pink ball dress who drank the laudanum and the cowboys taking turns walking her up and down the floor , keeping her ...
... move at once . He was trying to remem- ber something out of a book , years ago , of Owen Wis- ter's , the whore in the pink ball dress who drank the laudanum and the cowboys taking turns walking her up and down the floor , keeping her ...
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