Sanctuary

A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.

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Author: William Faulkner
Language: English
Vendor: Commercial
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1993
ISBN: 9780679748144
Category: Book
Subcategory: Paperback
Added: August 20, 2014

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