The Wild Palms Author:William Faulkner One of Faulkner's most painful and beautiful novels. In the rural wasteland of the South in the 1930's, two inmates escape from a penitentiary, and two lovers, Charlotte and Harry, run away together - sacrificing everything for their love. These two stories, alternately woven, describe four desperate people, attempting to escape the poverty, dec... more »adence, and seething violence of a world from which there is no escape.« less