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
... sound from within the room itself which moved them - the sound of a bottle against a glass . " Just a minute , " the man named Harry said . He en- tered the room quickly ; the doctor saw , flung across the beach chair , the faded jeans ...
... sound from within the room itself which moved them - the sound of a bottle against a glass . " Just a minute , " the man named Harry said . He en- tered the room quickly ; the doctor saw , flung across the beach chair , the faded jeans ...
Pàgina 71
... sound . He did not begin to hear it all at once , he suddenly became aware that he had been hearing it all the time , a sound so much beyond all his experience and his powers of assimilation that up to this point he had been as ...
... sound . He did not begin to hear it all at once , he suddenly became aware that he had been hearing it all the time , a sound so much beyond all his experience and his powers of assimilation that up to this point he had been as ...
Pàgina 237
... sound which he had heard twice before and would never forget - that sound of deliberate and ir- resistible and monstrously disturbed water . But this time he could not tell from what direction it came . It seemed to be everywhere ...
... sound which he had heard twice before and would never forget - that sound of deliberate and ir- resistible and monstrously disturbed water . But this time he could not tell from what direction it came . It seemed to be everywhere ...
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