The Wild Palms

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.

Author: William Faulkner
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/31/1995
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.24w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780679741930
Language: English