Sanctuary
Sanctuary,novel by Faulkner, published in 1931. The original text, in which Horace Benbow is the central character, was published in 1981. Requiem for a Nun (1951) is a sequel.
Temple Drake, an 18-year-old Mississippi college girl, goes to a petting party with a drunken escort, Gowan Stevens (see Gavin Stevens), who wrecks his car on a lonely road. They walk to a nearby house, which is a bootleggers' hideout, inhabited by a number of vicious criminals of whom the chief is the killer Popeye, emasculated and of subnormal intellect as the result of a childhood accident. Temple's cowardly escort escapes after a severe beating, but the girl, whose virginity makes her the object of several attacks, is finally raped by Popeye, who incidentally murders one of his men. He then places her in the Memphis brothel of Miss Reba, who is at first pleased to have the custom of this influential man, then horrified by his degenerate conduct....
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