{"product_id":"books-the-wild-palms-by-william-faulkner","title":"The Wild Palms","description":"In this feverishly beautiful novel--originally titled \u003ci\u003eIf I Forget Thee, Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e--William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminating 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, risking his own chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed with fatal injuries of the spirit. \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Palms\u003c\/i\u003e is grandly inventive, heart-stopping in its prose, and suffused on every page with the physical presence of the country that Faulkner made his own.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480937226513,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780679741930.jpg?v=1777553241","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-wild-palms-by-william-faulkner","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}