| The Wild Palms Contributor(s): Faulkner, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679741933 ISBN-13: 9780679741930 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Romance - Historical - 20th Century |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95017173 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.24" W x 8.08" (0.50 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |