William Faulkner

An assortment of perverse characters act out this dramatic story of the kidnapping of a Mississippi debutante

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Sanctuary

Remarkably bad for an author with this kind of a pedigree 

Clay Carey

Christopher McCaffery

Melody Izard

Realized I read this in college. Loved the language but I could not get close to these characters. Certainly I wanted to keep my distance from some ... Most of them- but I would have at least liked to have had a fleeting sense of having known the grungy fellows. Anyway - started strong with spot-on descriptions that had to be read aloud to my husband to just mucking along waiting for a stopping point so I could rest a while. Favorite character who I really disliked was Gordon, the drunk townie kid with a car who was with Temple when he drove into the tree.

Someone said that this was set during prohibition - but is that so? I think it was just set in a bit fat dry area of Mississippi which wasn't so dad gum long ago. That will be a question I ask Brian.

Celia Adams

Like all Faulkner books, I didn't actually enjoy reading this; but I still felt compelled to finish despite having successfully navigated my way through 2 classes without doing the daily reading. So there is something there about it, which is why it gets 2 stars. 
Also I'm am very glad I live in the time when authors give you information straight up rather rather than give you bits and pieces and hope you put it together because dear god if it wasn't for Wikipedia I would have no idea what just happened.

Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters of Faulkner's imagination. A compelling, shocking tale of perverted justice in the Deep South, Sanctuary is also a moving plea for courage in the darkest of circumstances.

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