- Fiction, Mississippi in fiction, Drifters, Racially mixed people
One of 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.
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Earnest, prestige, grave and meticulous.
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- William Faulkner
- First published
- 1931
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Verlag Volk und Welt, Picador in association with Chatto and Windus
- Editions
- 73
- Language
- German, Japanese, heb, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780824068134
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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.”
William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
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