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The Wild Palms
by [Faulkner, William]
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In this feverishly beautiful novel--originally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem--William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminating the other. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a 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 own 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. The Wild Palms is grandly inventive, heart-stopping in its prose, and suffused on every page with the physical presence of the country that Faulkner made his own.
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- Vintage Brand
- Oct 31, 1995 Pub Date:
- 9780679741930 ISBN-13:
- 0679741933 ISBN-10:
- 304.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 7.98 in * 0.63 in * 5.18 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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