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Sanctuary: The Corrected Text
(Paperback, 1993)
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Author: William Faulkner
SANCTUARY is Faulkner's most notorious novel; its sensational subject matter was particularly distur...
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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.
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"When Faulkner tore into the galleys of 'Sanctuary', he didn't change the original story, even if he had come to question it. He did not soften its horrors, nor did he delete the comic interludes: all of these survive unchanged in the novel as first published. His utter disgust with the original version was a craftsman's feeling....Although the revised novel is vastly better, the original 'Sanctuary' is not at all a contemptible book....It should be of service to apprentice writers...learning how a brilliant technician ...could work with disappointing galley proofs, save all the type that could be saved and come out with a new and more effective novel."
New York Times Book Review - Malcom Cowley (02/22/1981)
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