If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by William Faulkner

In this feverishly beautiful novel—originally titled If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Faulkner, and now published in the authoritative Library of America text—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 wiht fatal injuries of the spirit. The Wild Palms 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.

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The 590th greatest fiction book of all time


This book is on the following lists:

  1. - 5th on Biblioteca (Argentina)
  2. - 11th on El Pais Favorite Books of 100 Spanish Authors (El Pais)

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Name Binding Sales Rank Lowest New Lowest Used Published
The Wild Palms (Modern Library) Hardcover 2269074 $50.00 $7.38 1984
The Wild Palms Mass Market Paperback 3326412 $93.54 $4.00 1968
The Wild Palms Mass Market Paperback 3554230 $0.98 1968
The Wild Palms Paperback 7782997 $28.37
WILD PALMS V262 Paperback 3613900 $9.50 $0.01 1964
The Wild Palms Paperback 8918211 $1.97
The Wild Palms: [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] (Vintage International) Kindle Edition 742389 $11.99 2011
The Wild Palms Mass Market Paperback 5018538 $4.09
Wild Palms (French Edition) Paperback 5434918 $9.56 $0.93 2000
The Wild Palms Paperback 7699591 $6.77
The Wild Palms Paperback 267120 $10.03 $1.90 1995