The Wild PalmsChatto & Windus, 1954 - 315 pàgines |
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Pàgina 57
... standing waist- deep , were hoisting a squealing pig on to the slanting roof of a barn , on the ridgepole of which sat a row of chickens and a turkey . Near the barn was a haystack on which a cow stood tied by a rope to the centre pole ...
... standing waist- deep , were hoisting a squealing pig on to the slanting roof of a barn , on the ridgepole of which sat a row of chickens and a turkey . Near the barn was a haystack on which a cow stood tied by a rope to the centre pole ...
Pàgina 210
... standing there in the streaming bedticking garments which had got him shot at , the second time by a machine - gun , on the two occasions when he had seen any human life after leaving the levee four days ago , the convict felt exactly ...
... standing there in the streaming bedticking garments which had got him shot at , the second time by a machine - gun , on the two occasions when he had seen any human life after leaving the levee four days ago , the convict felt exactly ...
Pàgina 289
... standing down the river towards the Sound , the brief cool hour of morning while the sun was still at his back , the long glare of brazen afternoons while the salt - impinged sun slanted full and fierce into his window , printing his ...
... standing down the river towards the Sound , the brief cool hour of morning while the sun was still at his back , the long glare of brazen afternoons while the salt - impinged sun slanted full and fierce into his window , printing his ...
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66 All right ain't already began believe beneath black wind blinked boat breath Buckner Cajan cashier's cheque ceased Charlotte cigarette coat cold cried damned dark deputy doctor dollars door drink eyes face feet flat glare going gunwales hand hard Harry head hear heard hell hold instant knew levee light Listen live looked McCord move never niggers night nurse officer oleander once Orleans outrage paddle palm pantomime pilot house pirogue pistol plump convict preter quietly realised remembered returned Rittenmeyer seemed sitting skiff sleep smell snow sorghum sound squatted stared steadily steamboat stood stopped stove talk tall convict tell thinking thought told took train trees truck trying turned vanished Vicksburg violently voice wait waked walk Warden watched whisky wife Wilbourne wild Wild Palms wind window woman