SANCTUARY is Faulkner's most notorious novel; its sensational subject matter was particularly disturbing to the inhabitants of his home town of Oxford, Mississippi, many of whom felt Faulkner presented a distorted picture of their community. The novel tells the story of Temple Drake, an Alabama debutante who falls under the influence of a sinister bootlegger named Popeye. In the introduction to "Sanctuary" (one of the few introductions he wrote), Faulkner admits that the book was "a cheap idea, because it was deliberately ...
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SANCTUARY is Faulkner's most notorious novel; its sensational subject matter was particularly disturbing to the inhabitants of his home town of Oxford, Mississippi, many of whom felt Faulkner presented a distorted picture of their community. The novel tells the story of Temple Drake, an Alabama debutante who falls under the influence of a sinister bootlegger named Popeye. In the introduction to "Sanctuary" (one of the few introductions he wrote), Faulkner admits that the book was "a cheap idea, because it was deliberately conceived to make money." (SANCTUARY was in fact his only best-seller.) Faulkner liked to boast that he wrote the novel in three weeks, but he also revised it extensively before final publication. REQUIEM FOR A NUN is a sequel to the earlier SANCTUARY, and continues the story of Temple Drake eight years later. Now married to Gowan Stevens, Temple tries to save the life of a nurse who is accused of murdering Temple and Gowan's child. Most of the novel is presented in the form of a play. Each act begins with an essay giving the background of the events and a history of the mythical Yoknapatawpha County, as well as a consideration of the ways in which the past affects the present--Faulkner's perennial theme.
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Good in Good jacket. Book Ex-lib(with allowance for lib indications condition is VG/VG; see description below). Hardcover in burgundy cloth, in white jacket, 8vo. 1st edition. 311ppp. + note on editor. Note on text, brief bibliography. Lib indications are call label lower spine of jacket, pocket rear free endpaper; surface scraping to inner sides of jacket flaps and front and rear pastedowns from formerly attached flaps. Cloth clean and sharp; mild cocking toward lower end only with no effect on strong binding; pages clean and unmarked. Jacket has curl and longitudinal crease along fore edge front flap. Central panels clean and very bright. Jacket in Brodart.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 311 p. Audience: General/trade. Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1981. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Maroon cloth, gilt titles at spine, front board. Stated first edition (thus). Book near fine, little wear. DJ few minor chips, else near fine. 311 pp.
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