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| Title | : | Sanctuary |
| Author | : | William Faulkner |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | The Corrected Text |
| Pages | : | Pages: 317 pages |
| Published | : | December 6th 1993 by Vintage (first published 1931) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. American. Gothic. Southern Gothic. Novels. Southern |
William Faulkner
Paperback | Pages: 317 pages Rating: 3.64 | 10793 Users | 729 Reviews
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Psychologically astute and wonderfully poetic, Sanctuary is a powerful novel examining the nature of true evil, through the prisms of mythology, local lore, and hard-boiled detective fiction. This is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.
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| Original Title: | Sanctuary |
| ISBN: | 0679748148 (ISBN13: 9780679748144) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Popeye, Horace Benbow, Narcissa Benbow Sartoris, Virginia Du Pre, Lee Goodwin, Gowan Stevens, Temple Drake, Van and Gowan |
| Setting: | United States of America Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.64 From 10793 Users | 729 ReviewsWeigh Up Epithetical Books Sanctuary
This is considered one of Faulkner's more accessible books. He said he wrote it "just for the money". It is easier to read than many others. My problem with Faulkner is, he makes me feel dumb. I have trouble following his narratives, always have. Sometimes he can go for several pages of dialog between two characters and never refer to the identity of the person speaking. Is this deliberate? Anyway, I only had trouble with one part of this book. There is a character named Red who shows up andThe physical edition I have is an old pre-ISBN edition that includes his Requiem for a Nun, sequel to Sanctuary. I picked it up at the library book sale for a song. But I've been putting off reading it because that edition has tiny tiny print. And it smells old. So I switched to this Kindle edition for my reading. It was a good substitute except that it has the occasional OCR error and a bit more frequently the formatting was wonky. Acceptable, but obviously inferior enough to comment about.I
I Am What I Am and That's All That I Am"Good God, I can't publish this. We'd both be in jail." So said Faulkner's publisher prior to the 1931 publication of this sensational novel of rape and murder, focusing on Temple Drake, an Ole Miss debutante, and a violent bootlegging criminal named Popeye. Faulkner throws his 2d favorite female character, Temple Drake (behind Caddy Compson), an Ole Miss cutie, into the devil's pit by circumstances (caused proximately by the same brown devilwater that
Sanctuary, William FaulknerSanctuary is a novel by the American author William Faulkner about the rape and abduction of a well-bred Mississippi college girl, Temple Drake, during the Prohibition era. It is considered one of his more controversial works, given its theme of rape. First published in 1931, it was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough, establishing his literary reputation. It is said Faulkner claimed it was a "potboiler", written purely for profit, but this has been debated
Second time around and I am leaving my star-rating where it was. 20 years later and I have learned to better appreciate the author. I applaud his love for writing. It's not hard to picture old Faulkner with a smile on his face laying down lines like these. "There was a moon tonight. Within the black-and-silver tunnel of cedars fireflies drifted in fatuous pinpricks. The cedars were black and pointed on the sky like a paper silhouette; the sloping lawn had a faint sheen, a patina like silver.
This gets five full-blown stars this time around. The full wickedness of the book's title is only understood after reading. Faulkner set out to write the most scandalous, shocking, filthy book he could, for $ purposes. He succeeds at this but the book is still a work of art. The characters can be split into two camps, those with a moral compass and those without. Those with (poor Horace) are bound to be disappointed, by the world and by themselves. But each unhappy person is unhappy in his own
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