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Light in August (Modern Library) [Hardcover]

William Faulkner (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 528 pages
  • Publisher: Random House Inc; New edition edition (2 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 067964248X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679642480
  • Product Dimensions: 14.4 x 3.1 x 21 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 433,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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For all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics. --Ralph Ellison

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One of William Faulkner’s most admired and accessible novels, Light in August reveals the great American author at the height of his powers. Lena Grove’s resolute search for the father of her unborn child begets a rich, poignant, and ultimately hopeful story of perseverance in the face of mortality. It also acquaints us with several of Faulkner’s most unforgettable characters, including the Reverend Gail Hightower, plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen, and Joe Christmas, a ragged, itinerant soul obsessed with his mixed-race ancestry. Powerfully entwining these characters’ stories, Light in August brings to life Faulkner’s imaginary South, one of literature’s great invented landscapes, in all of its unerringly fascinating glory. Along with a new Foreword by C. E. Morgan, this edition reproduces the corrected text of Light in August as established in 1985 by Faulkner expert Noel Polk.

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Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, 'I have come from Alabama: a fur piece. Read the first page
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
The South rises 16 July 2000
By Michael Battaglia - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Nothing is ever simple in a Faulkner book. However plainly the people talk, however straightforward that the situations seem, there are layers and layers of things to dig through to find the ultimate truth, if indeed there is any. I've already read Sound and the Fury and as glorious as that book was, this novel absolutely captivated me. It's Faulkner's way with words, he's not flashy like some contemporary authors, preferring to slowly wind his way into your consciousness with his gift of writing. It's only as you read, maybe as you peruse a passage for the second time do you see the little details that you missed the first time out, the choice of a word here, the flow of a paragraph. And his characters, all beautifully drawn, with flaws and cracks and everything, but even the farthest gone of his lowlives has some pearl of wisdom to impart, his pillars all have dark secrets. In short they're just like his, if we lived in the South at the turn of the century. Faulkner captures it all, weaving his characters together with the skill of a master, no seams showing, everything seeming to happen naturally. Even when the story detours to tell someone's backstory, it seems to come at the perfect moment. If I sound a bit fawning, that's because this book deserves it, nothing puts together the picture of a time better than this, and as an aspiring writer I am in sincere awe of Faulkner's ability to reflect even the more complex of emotions with a word or a sentence. He has to be read to be believed and it definitely must be experienced. Just immerse yourself in a time and place thought long gone, that still lurks in the corners of people's thoughts and the traditions that never die.
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Brilliance in the Deep South. 6 Aug 2000
By Chandler Merrell - Published on Amazon.com
Format:School & Library Binding
This was my second experience with Faulkner, I read 'The Bear' in college some 25 years ago. 'The Bear' was written when Faulkner decided that he would no longer take it easy on the reader and stopped punctuating.

Reading 'Light in August' is not quite as frustrating; more like driving over a mountain, everyime you hit a straightaway you see another switchback on the horizon.

The story is not complicated but the characters are and Faulkner interweaves his passionate story by taking you as far back as three generations to make the reader understand from whom some characters evolved.

The best and most important character is Joe Christmas, the abused mulatto with no sense of heritage whose atrocious act is central to the goings on.

The passion with which Faulkner writes was simply unmatched by his contemporaries.

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He writes in color 10 Feb 1999
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Faulkner writes in rainbow color. Full of feeling, mortification, and injustice. The character of Joe Christmas is a shockingly tragic figure that seems almost Christlike, and the character of the oversexed Miss Burden is equally sad. There are so many themes you could pull out of this story. It just fascinates me. I think it touches on race relations in a way that's really pretty intuitive for the time period and part of the country Faulkner was coming from. He plays with both fear of black people and fear of female sexuality, all in the same weave. Worth it.

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