Requiem for a Nun - Hardcover
In order to save a nurse convicted of murder, Temple Stevens decides to confess that she killed her own daughter
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"A revolutionary novelist - he experiments with narration like no other" (Guardian)
"His mind to him a kingdom was; or rather, a county, Yoknapatawpha. He breathed on it and gave it life, a luminous world of rustics, comic and sinister, of inchoate historical processes and tragic human beings, earning dignity by endurance" (Independent)
"The magnitude of Faulkner's characters lies in their blood and bone and sinew: the exquisite specificity of their human fallibility... Faulkner seemed incapable of separating intimate character from universal truth, and this rough refusal - both humble and defiant - was at the root of his force as a writer... No other American writer has achieved such staggering heights of form" (Boston Globe)
"There is tension and passion enough in this drama. The impetus never fails" (Observer)
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"His mind to him a kingdom was; or rather, a county, Yoknapatawpha. He breathed on it and gave it life, a luminous world of rustics, comic and sinister, of inchoate historical processes and tragic human beings, earning dignity by endurance" (Independent)
"The magnitude of Faulkner's characters lies in their blood and bone and sinew: the exquisite specificity of their human fallibility... Faulkner seemed incapable of separating intimate character from universal truth, and this rough refusal - both humble and defiant - was at the root of his force as a writer... No other American writer has achieved such staggering heights of form" (Boston Globe)
"There is tension and passion enough in this drama. The impetus never fails" (Observer)
A tense and troubling tale of how a dark past can return to tear apart a hard-won present peace.
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- PublisherRandom House Inc
- Publication date1951
- ISBN 10 0394442741
- ISBN 13 9780394442747
- BindingHardcover
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