num_pages: 287
description: '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.
language: English
title: The Wild Palms
titlecomplete: The Wild Palms
genres: Classics, Southern, Fiction, The United States Of America, Nobel Prize, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, American, Americana
ratings_count: 4745
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random