Sanctuary is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. It is considered one of his more controversial, given its theme of rape. First published in 1931, it was Faulkner's commercial and critical breakthrough, establishing his literary reputation. Faulkner claimed it was a "potboiler", written purely for profit, but this has been debated by scholars and Faulkner's own personal friends. In 1933 it was adapted for the film, The Story of Temple Drake, but tweaked to comply with the Production Code and with Popeye renamed "Trigger" for copyright reasons. The novel is set in Faulkner's... fictional Yoknapatawpha County and takes place in May/June 1929. In May 1929, a lawyer named Horace Benbow, frustrated with his life, his spouse, and his stepdaughter, suddenly leaves his home in Kinston, Mississippi, and sets out to hitchhike his way back to Jefferson, his hometown in Yoknapatawpha County, where his widowed sister Narcissa Sartoris lives with her son and her late husband's great-aunt . On the way to Jefferson, he stops for a drink of water near the "Old Frenchman" homestead, which is occupied by the bootlegger Lee Goodwin.
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