The Wild Palms
by William Faulkner
Taste attributes: dramaromancehistoricalslowfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticintricateglossyemotive & stirringcomplex relationshipself destruction/implosionhuman spirit/resilience/survival
Boxlist takeExpect a moving, weighty novel, dark rather than wholesome. Best if you like depth over escapism.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: dark · Weight: very heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: glossy · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: very stirringHow we score
About This Book
'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.
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- Author
- William Faulkner
- Published
- 1939
- Pages
- 335
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- Open Library
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