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In this feverishly beautiful novel— subsequently titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner—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 wiht 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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The Wild Palms, William Faulkner
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- Released
- 1964
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- Title
- The Wild Palms
- Language
- English
- Authors
- William Faulkner
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 1964
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN10
- 039470262X
- ISBN13
- 9780394702629
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Legal Topics, Love, Classics, American Literature, 20th century, Literary Fiction, Suicide, Nobel prize, Tragedy, Justice, Criminal Law, 1930s, Mississippi, Floods
- First published
- 1939
- Original title
- The Wild Palms
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- In this feverishly beautiful novel— subsequently titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner—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 wiht 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.