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  • Published: 6 December 1993
  • ISBN: 9780679748144
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $32.99

Sanctuary





A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.

  • Published: 6 December 1993
  • ISBN: 9780679748144
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $32.99

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