The Wild Palms

The Wild Palms
- Used Book in Good Condition
In this feverishly beautiful novelâ€”originally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalemâ€”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.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0679741933_used
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1995-10-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679741930

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