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Sanctuary

William Faulkner

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1931
Pages
Pages 320

After a car crash strands her at a bootlegger's hideout, a college girl is raped by an impotent gangster who keeps her in a Memphis brothel, and her false testimony at the murder trial sends an innocent man to be lynched.

He had that vicious depthless quality of stamped tin.
Sanctuary, William Faulkner

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