William Faulknerβs _Requiem for a Nun_ revisits _Sanctuary_ βs Temple Drake, now married to Gowan Stevens and the mother of two young children. On the eve of an execution, Temple is forced to confront her past as she explores how earlier violent events influenced the murder of her infant child by it
Requiem for a Nun
- Book ID
- 127018853
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Standards
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The sequel to Faulkner's most sensational novel _Sanctuary_ , was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in _Sanctuary_. Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. The book begins when the death sentence is pronounced on the nurse Nancy fo
William Faulknerβs _Requiem for a Nun_ revisits _Sanctuary_ βs Temple Drake, now married to Gowan Stevens and the mother of two young children. On the eve of an execution, Temple is forced to confront her past as she explores how earlier violent events influenced the murder of her infant child by it
Set in fictitious Yoknapatawpha County, the backdrop for many of William Faulkner's other novels, _Sanctuary_ and _Requiem for a Nun_ recount the tumultuous and tragic life of Temple Drake. In the 1931 novel _Sanctuary_ , Temple is a student at Ole Miss university when her idyllic life is altered af