In order to save a nurse convicted of murder, Temple Stevens decides to confess that she killed her own daughter.
Switching between narrative prose and play script, this is Faulkner's haunting sequel to his earlier bestseller, Sanctuary.
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.
Requiem for a Nun: A Concordance to the Novel
It was adapted for theater in 1956 by Albert Camus, who also wrote the preface to the French translation of the novel.
Requiem for a Nun
Switching between narrative prose and play script, this is Faulkner's haunting sequel to his earlier bestseller, Sanctuary.
Requiem for a Nun: on Stage and Off