A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hardboiled detective fiction. Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.
- ISBN10 0394747445
- ISBN13 9780394747446
- Publish Date 12 March 1987 (first published 12 April 1966)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Vintage Books USA
- Edition Vintage Books ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 341
- Language English