The Wild Palms by William Faulkner [1968 PAPERBACK] • Signet

The Wild Palms by William Faulkner

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1968] SIGNET MODERN CLASSICS

Vintage mass market printing in excellent condition.

Clean tight and unread vintage paperback.  Cover shows wear to edges.

Reads like new.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In this feverishly beautiful novel—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.