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The Wild Palms

The Wild Palms

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0679741933
ISBN13: 9780679741930
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Oct 31 1995
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
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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