- Paperback: 291 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Books; 1st Vintage International Ed edition (15 Jan 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679741933
- ISBN-13: 978-0679741930
- Product Dimensions: 20.5 x 13.3 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,470,237 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In a feverishly beautiful novel, Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each subtly illuminating the other
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Harry Wilbourne and his lover Charlotte escape from the snare of Chicago and the security that the city holds after he has performed an abortion on her. But the shades of the prison house, of death, seem to close around them as they turn their backs on life to conserve their love.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
`Wild Palms' is about two lovers who dare to have a very deep and selfless relationship that leads them to madness and death. The other is called `Old Man' and it is about a convict that saves a woman from a flood, but it means much more, it is all about maternity and the old battle of Men against Nature. The stories told in alternated chapters are about love, resignation and dedication.
I like most `Wild Palms', but it doens't mean I didn't like the other novel. But Palms somehow pushed some buttons inside me. Many people complain this novel is too obvious, and after the second chapter you can predict things that will happens to the lovers in the end. Well, it can be so somehow, but what I think it is more importante here is how far they go and how they take their love affair so serious and passionate. Charlotte and Wilbourne are very brave . When reading I could see the tragic result of their love, but one cannot imagine what leads the to such an ending. `Old Man' also is about love, but a different kind. In this novel, the river is one of the main characters, subjugating men, but also meaning free will.
All in all, it is a very dense novel, that tackles both about bizarre and lyrical sides of life. I don't think it is a kind of book for everyone, due to its difficult and deep subject, but some people will delight with Faulner's words.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Like all Faulkner books, this is a rich, thick piece of literature that almost forces you to put the book down occasionally and draw breath. There are two stories told in alternating chapters: one story follows a convict during a devastating flood; the second a woman who abandons her husband and children to live with the man she has fallen in love with.
These are pretty ordinary tales, but Faulkner's talent is to bring the depth of experience out of them. For the first hundred pages or so my jaw was literally dropping at the author's sheer talent for evoking his characters and their situations. In some ways, though, this richness can sometimes become too much - like a rich pudding that gives you stomach ache - while at times I found myself impatient for the convict chapter to end so I could return to the couple story.
That aside this is a brilliant book that makes you realise how many different ways a story can be told - and how a truly brilliant writer like Faulkner can bring the medium to life.
These are pretty ordinary tales, but Faulkner's talent is to bring the depth of experience out of them. For the first hundred pages or so my jaw was literally dropping at the author's sheer talent for evoking his characters and their situations. In some ways, though, this richness can sometimes become too much - like a rich pudding that gives you stomach ache - while at times I found myself impatient for the convict chapter to end so I could return to the couple story.
That aside this is a brilliant book that makes you realise how many different ways a story can be told - and how a truly brilliant writer like Faulkner can bring the medium to life.
6 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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A masterpiece, one of Faulkner's greatest achievements. The book brings the dark side of the American dream. With black humour and sophisticated literary technic, Faulkners shows how money, fear and prejudicism have destroyed the aspirations of common Americans. The novel depicts American society as a material civilization utterly devoid of ideals. In this novel, Faulkner's black vision of America comes close to E. A. Poe's literary nightmares and his epic vision of Mississippi to that of Mark Twain.
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