'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 ...
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'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.
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Collectible: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 5x1x7; Gently used. Only slight wear. Odor free. No owners' names or labels. Dust jacket is enclosed in a clear protective cover. Text is clean, unmarked. Remainder mark on top page block. Stated first Modern Library edition. (Shelf: E1) Books are carefully sealed in waterproof mailers and then boxed to prevent damage during transit.
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Woodcuts By Stephen Alcorn. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Fiction. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Clean and tight and square. Sharp corners. Appears unread/unopened. Dark brown leather-like covers with gold lettering on the spine. Torchbearer within a black box on the front. Beautiful colorful Torchbearers as end pages. The dust jacket has very little shelfwear and is in new mylar. Tan construction paper quality dust jacket with black lettering and a beautiful woodcut on the front. Tan lettering within a darker brown box on the front and on the spine. Many titles listed on the inside of the jacket.
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dj with Stephen Alcorn woodcut. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 12 vo. Dj w/clipped price, in mylar; pubisher's mark on bottom edge; rust c w/rust runner on black on cover, 339 clean, unmarked pages; First Modern Library Edition, 1984 (stated on copyright page).