Sanctuary

William Faulkner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2011
Vintage Classics (Verlag)
978-0-09-954102-8 (ISBN)

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Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters of Faulkner's imagination. A compelling, shocking tale of perverted justice in the Deep South, Sanctuary is also a moving plea for courage in the darkest of circumstances.

Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler. William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.6.2011
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 198 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	0-09-954102-5 / 0099541025
ISBN-13	978-0-09-954102-8 / 9780099541028
Zustand	Neuware