Sanctuary (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Melodrama
- Time of Work: 1929
- Setting: Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee
- Principal Characters: Popeye, Horace Benbow, Temple Drake, Tommy, Lee Goodwin, Ruby Lamar, Reba Rivers, Gowan Stevens
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Melodrama
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, 1920’s, Trials, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Violence, Tennessee, Lawyers, Lynching, Corruption, Kidnapping, Gangsters, Organized crime
- Locales: Memphis, TN, Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)
The Story:
Horace Benbow, on his way to Jefferson one afternoon, stopped to drink from a spring on the Old Frenchman place. When he rose, he saw an undersized man in a black suit watching him; the man’s hand was in a pocket that held his gun. Satisfied at last that the lawyer was not a revenue officer, Popeye led Benbow to the gutted ruins of a plantation house. That night the lawyer drank moonshine and ate with Popeye, several moonshiners, and a blind and deaf old man, the father of Lee Goodwin, one of the moonshiners. They were fed by Ruby, Goodwin’s woman. Later, Benbow...
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