THE WILD PALMS

In this feverishly beautiful noveloriginally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner, and now published in the authoritative Library of America textWilliam Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminati ng the other. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a 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, ri sking his o...[Read more]