Sanctuary - Couverture souple

Faulkner, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0679748148 ISBN 13 : 9780679748144

Editeur : Vintage UK, 1993

ROD0105403. SANCTUARY.. 1931. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos frotté, Intérieur acceptable. 252 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

Biographie de l'auteur :

William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun, in 1924, but it is as a literary chronicler of life in the Deep South—particularly in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, the setting for several of his novels—that he is most highly regarded. In such novels as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! he explored the full range of post–Civil War Southern life, focusing both on the personal histories of his characters and on the moral uncertainties of an increasingly dissolute society. In combining the use of symbolism with a stream-of-consciousness technique, he created a new approach to fiction writing. In 1949 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. William Faulkner died in Byhalia, Mississippi, on July 6, 1962.

Quatrième de couverture :

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

'A haunting study of evil triumphant' New York Times

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.

See also: The Sound and the Fury

• Éditeur: Vintage UK
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679748148
• ISBN 13: 9780679748144
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336