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Light in August

William Faulkner

Paperback | Pages: 507 pages

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Title	:	Light in August
Author	:	William Faulkner
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 507 pages
Published	:	January 30th 1991 by Vintage (first published March 12th 1932)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels

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Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, a lonely outcast haunted by visions of Confederate glory; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.

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Original Title:	Light in August
ISBN:	0679732268 (ISBN13: 9780679732266)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lena Grove, Lucas Burch, Byron Bunch, Joe Christmas, Joanna Burden, Reverend Gail Hightower, Eupheus "Doc" Hines
Setting:	Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi(United States)

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After some 45+ years, I have finally read Light in August again. What amazes me is how little beyond the basic character details I remembered. I also increasingly believe that I read Faulkner better with more life experience than I did when younger. I have been finding that true with many classics.As for the novel itself, I dont plan a lengthy review. I have noted many sections I like using status updates (such a great way to sneak in a lot of quotations). Essentially this novel is many lives

We are in Mississippi, in Jefferson, imaginary Yoknapatawpha County town where Faulkner located many of his novels. It is between the two world wars with a racist south, still recovering from the civil war.Lena, pregnant girl, comes from Alabama to join the father of the child. A house is on fire. A murder has been committed. We will then follow the fate of Joe Christmas, and parallel those of the Reverend Hightower and Joanna Burden.It is a very dense book. The atmosphere is heavy. Nothing is

While Faulkner is a beautiful writer he is very depressing. I lost interest after 100 plus pages, so I really can't even say that I read the book. What did me in was his flashbacks. It was okay for one chapter, but chapter after chapter revealed flashbacks, and this during the time when I found the book so interesting. My thought was to skip them and get on with the book, but so many chapters were on it. I will keep the book and keep trying. P.S. I gave in and finished the book. It never got

While Faulkner is a beautiful writer he is very depressing. I lost interest after 100 plus pages, so I really can't even say that I read the book. What did me in was his flashbacks. It was okay for one chapter, but chapter after chapter revealed flashbacks, and this during the time when I found the book so interesting. My thought was to skip them and get on with the book, but so many chapters were on it. I will keep the book and keep trying. P.S. I gave in and finished the book. It never got

Published in 1932, this classic American southern gothic novel, set during Prohibition, follows the intersecting lives of five people not following a traditional path in life. They are viewed as outsiders because they do not adhere to social norms. Joe Christmas is an orphan who is abused as a child and believes he is of mixed racial ancestry but has no proof. He is searching for his place in the world. Lena Grove is in an unwed pregnant young woman looking for the father of her unborn child.

Don't pray over no body. I knew that I would figure it out. It was something I already knew. That's how you don't feel bad about wanting to know anyone. Don't expect anything. It doesn't get rid of the falling feeling when you think about them, though. Light in August is an ultimate societal kangaroo's pouch of claustrophobic guilt for me. Where does anyone belong? William Faulkner writes to me in my favorite way of being talked to in stories (anything). If I could have this in every book I read

It occurs to me on reading Light in August for the third time in twenty years, that if America were ever to try to come to terms with its legacy of slavery--unlikely now at this late date--but if it ever were to empanel some kind of Truth and Reconciliation Commission, like the one South Africa had after apartheid, and which seems especially needed now that we are mourning the shooting deaths by cops of so many unarmed black men, then William Faulkner's novels, certainly this one, should be part