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 126
... thinking of nothing , believing he was thinking only of the money , how each time they always had the wrong amount of it and that they were about money like some unlucky people were about alcohol : either none or too much . It was the ...
... thinking of nothing , believing he was thinking only of the money , how each time they always had the wrong amount of it and that they were about money like some unlucky people were about alcohol : either none or too much . It was the ...
Pàgina 247
... thinking of the bullets . He had forgotten them , forgiven them . He was thinking of him- self crouching , sobbing , panting before running again -the voice , the indictment , the cry of final and irre- vocable repudiation of the old ...
... thinking of the bullets . He had forgotten them , forgiven them . He was thinking of him- self crouching , sobbing , panting before running again -the voice , the indictment , the cry of final and irre- vocable repudiation of the old ...
Pàgina 258
... thinking not , It looks dangerous but It looks big , thinking , Well , maybe a mule standing in a lot looks big to a man that never walked up to one with a halter before , thinking , Only if he could just tell me what to do it would ...
... thinking not , It looks dangerous but It looks big , thinking , Well , maybe a mule standing in a lot looks big to a man that never walked up to one with a halter before , thinking , Only if he could just tell me what to do it would ...
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