Light in August
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Publisher Description
Light in August is a classic Southern gothic novel by American author William Faulkner. A modernist classic the narrative is unstructured and draws from oral storytelling. The novel focuses on two misfits who arrive in Jefferson, Mississippi – Lena Grove, a young pregnant white woman from Alabama looking for the father of her unborn baby and Joe Christmas, a man who passes as white but has some black ancestry.
~Ranked 54th on Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels List
~Made Time’s All-Time 100 Novels List
~Chosen for Oprah’s Book Club
~William Faulkner is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Narrator Will Patton delivers a compelling performance in this audio version of Faulkner's classic novel of tangled racial and sexual relations in the American South that traces the stories of pregnant Lena Grove, searching for the father of her unborn child; a bootlegger named Joe Christmas; and the Rev. Gail Hightower. Capturing the spirit of the text, Patton's narration is expertly paced, rich, and hypnotic. He ably handles the tricky cadence of Faulkner's prose and the racial slurs that riddle the story narrating with a honeyed drawl that is undercut by brutal frankness. There are a few moments when Patton overacts and fails to allow the author's words to take center stage. However, Faulkner fans will likely overlook what amounts to a minor flaw in this otherwise enjoyable listen. A Random House /Vintage International paperback.
