The Wild Palms, Paperback
Descriere
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.
Despre autor
William Cuthbert Faulkner, născut Falkner a fost un scriitor american. Este cunoscut pentru romanele și nuvelele sale care au ca decor fictivul comitat Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, un substitut pentru comitatul Lafayette, unde și-a petrecut cea mai mare parte a vieții.
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