by William Faulkner · Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402086556
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«Santuario» is the novel by William Faulkner, published by Bruguera in paperback (319 pages, in Spanish).
In the American South, lawyer Horace Benbow defends Lee Goodwin, accused of a murder in a house with an illegal distillery. To save him, he seeks out Temple Drake, a young woman drawn to danger, and crosses paths with Popeye, a sadistic gangster. The novel shows corruption and moral decay.
Translation by José Luis López Muñoz of the original «Sanctuary» (1931). Paperback edition from the Libro Amigo collection, published in 1982.
A representative work of Southern Gothic, for readers of twentieth-century American classics.
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
