The Wild Palms
of William Faulkner, Adam Mars-Jones (Introduction)
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In this feverishly beautiful novelâ subsequently titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem and now published in the authoritative Library of America textâWilliam 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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- Format Paperback
- Pages 304 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date October 31st 1995
- First Publication 11/06/39
- Language English
- ISBN 9780679741930
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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