{"product_id":"9780679741930","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":"William Faulkner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45894966706388,"sku":"9780679741930","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_314e6d06-111c-460c-a178-26be7a7c04f7.jpg?v=1732432562","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780679741930","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}