She added to that slightly incredible step the wholly incredible one of returning to Jefferson, her home town and the county seat, to settle down. We now learn that after a year in Europe, Temple went decked in virgin's white to the American Embassy in Paris and there married up with Gowan Stevens, the well-bred lush whose bout of drinking landed her in her mess of trouble. It may seem that fate, playing fair, could not have had more in store for a simple Southern girl. She had been in an automobile wreck, she had been involved in two murders, she had been raped in a manner new to the novel, and raped old-style by proxy, she had been kidnapped and held prisoner in a Memphis brothel, and she had committed perjury that resulted in an innocent man's being burned to death by a mob. Even for the heroine of a novel of violence in the heyday of the genre, she was experienceprone to an unusual degree: Between the time she slipped off the train at Taylor and the time she was to be seen yawning at the watery charms of the Luxembourg Gardens on a wet autumn day, a good deal had happened to her. Edit Details Friend Reviews To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

Faulkner's new offering, Requiem for a Nun, is in the main a sequel to Sanctuary, and is concerned with the further misadventures of Temple Drake, a tomboy whose qualities have always had an unsettling effect on her creator. Published in 1950, 19 years after Sanctuary, Requiem for a Nun is unique for Faulkner’s use of both prose and play narrative. Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner 3.77 Rating details 22 ratings 4 reviews Get A Copy Amazon Stores Libraries Mass Market Paperback, 0 pages Published by Signet Book (first published July 1st 1954) More Details.

“Requiem for a Dramatist.” New Yorker, September 22, 1951, pp.