Light in August
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3.9 • 110 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
A shocking act of murder and arson in Prohibition-era Mississippi entangles an assortment of memorable misfits in this novel from Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner. With a new introduction by Jay Parini.
Sweet, hopeful Lena Grove has trekked miles on foot in search of the runaway bootlegger who fathered her unborn child. In the town of Jefferson, she finds instead shy and honorable Byron Bunch, who assists Lena in her quest while quietly adoring her. The town’s history-haunted outcasts include disgraced Reverend Gail Hightower, plagued by visions of his Confederate grandfather; Joanna Burden, a despised descendant of abolitionist carpetbaggers; and Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter tormented by his suspected mixed-race ancestry. As these characters converge, Faulkner vividly depicts a world in which no one can escape the weight of the past.
Customer Reviews
Light in August
A book about a pregnant woman trying to find the man who left her that way, a half black man that has a troubled life and a preacher that is defrocked. The book is full of run on sentences, run on paragraphs and even run on words with talking in and out of the vernacular. The story was discombobulated. While you can see Faulkner’s brilliance, it was not an enjoyable read.