Wild Palms

"Between grief and nothing I will take grief"

In New Orleans in 1937, a man and 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 one 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.