Sanctuary

Sanctuary is a 1931 Southern Gothic novel set in William Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. The story follows the dark and brutal fate of Temple Drake, an upper-class college girl who, after being abandoned by her date at a crumbling plantation house, falls into the hands of a gang of bootleggers. She is abducted and raped by the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters in Faulkner's work. The novel also chronicles the efforts of lawyer Horace Benbow to save bootlegger Lee Goodwin, who is unjustly accused of a subsequent crime, ultimately exploring themes of depravity, social corruption, the loss of innocence, and a shocking miscarriage of justice in the Deep South.

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