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  • Published: 3 November 2000
  • ISBN: 9780099282921
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99

Wild Palms




In a feverishly beautiful novel, Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each subtly illuminating the other

'Between grief and nothing I will take grief'

In New Orleans in 1937, a man and 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 one 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.

  • Published: 3 November 2000
  • ISBN: 9780099282921
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99

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Praise for Wild Palms

There is no writer living who can play upon a scene the rich and Rembrandtesque flame that Faulkner commands

Evening Standard

His prose style is all his own, often sensuously alert, evocative, graceful

Daily Telegraph

Lays to rest any doubts that Faulkner could write a powerful love story

Washington Post

There is an extraordinary vigor and power in his writing, a feverish urge toward description in which words combine in a dense web of meaning

Chicago Tribune