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Genre/Form: | Fictional Work Novels Fiction Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Wild palms. New York : Vintage Books, [1964] (OCoLC)651940875 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Faulkner |
OCLC Number: | 2785189 |
Description: | 339 pages ; 19 cm |
Series Title: | Vintage books, V-262. |
Other Titles: | Wild palms (Novel) |
Responsibility: | William Faulkner. |
Abstract:
"An early Faulkner novel, originally published in 1939, embodying two interlocking stories of illicit love, a tragedy of men who deny the responsibilities of love, yet cannot do without it."
'Between grief and nothing I will take grief'. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed with fatal injuries of the spirit.-Publisher's description.
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