Mr. Faulkner takes us down two paths, apparently unconnected. He
calls one story The Wild Palms, the other Old Man. They alternate
and never touch, until the very end. Then, the pieces fall into
place, and The Wild Palms turns out to be the story behind the
story of Old Man. The one story is a story of illicit love - the
other story is the punishment. In both, the central character is
given a chance to escape and refuses, preferring to serve his
sentence of grief. Faulkner has come to grips with his style, and
has found a terse, vivid medium, shorn of much of the brutality of
his earlier work but still vigorous, dramatic, though not as
colorful as his more impassioned and less controlled form. The
setting is again the Deep South. (Kirkus Reviews)
In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight in to the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temp tations 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 compo ses a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifi ce, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed with fatal injurie s of the spirit.
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