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The Wild Palms (Vintage classics) (Paperback)

by William Faulkner (Author)
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  • Paperback: 287 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (5 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099282925
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099282921
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 128,451 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these seperate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.


About the Author

William Faulkner was born in 1897 in Mississippi. He left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home he studied at the University of Mississippi. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. He died in 1962.

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5.0 out of 5 stars America's Shadow, 16 April 2001
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Wild Lovers, 19 Aug 2005
`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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Jaw dropping, 20 Nov 2006
By Mr. Paul J. Bradshaw (Midlands, UK) - See all my reviews
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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.
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