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  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099541028
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99

Sanctuary





A terrifying story that scandalised Faulkner's editor into rejecting the original manuscript

Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters of Faulkner's imagination. A compelling, shocking tale of perverted justice in the Deep South, Sanctuary is also a moving plea for courage in the darkest of circumstances.

  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099541028
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99

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Praise for Sanctuary

A haunting study of evil triumphant

New York Times

Not a book for the fainthearted

Sunday Times

Thick with menace, desire, compulsion and despair

Los Angeles Times
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