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Temple Stevens is a nurse convicted of a murder she has not actually committed. Facing execution, she swears to confess to the death of her own daughter, hoping the admission will absolve her sister who is dying.
The story unfolds as Temple wrestles with guilt, legal strategy, and the complexities of her own past. Her confession becomes a desperate gambit to alter the outcome of her own fate and redeem her sister's life.
First publish date: 1950
Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Literature
Authors: William Faulkner
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