Pulp Faulkner (3)

[William Faulkner, The Wild Palms and The Old Man (1939). New York: New American Library, 1954.]

It’s one novel, really, first published as The Wild Palms, later published with Faulkner’s chosen title, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem added. This paperback splits the alternating chapters of the novel’s separate narratives into two shorter novels. Such is the fate of a modernist writer in paperback.

I’ve not read The Wild Palms. My interest in Faulkner is limited to Yoknapatawpha County. If you look at the bottom right corner, you’ll see the signature of James Avanti.

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