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Light In august (Oprah's Book Club)
[Paperback - 2005]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Vintage Uk | ISBN: 9780099283157 | Pages: 384
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'Burns throughout with a fierce indignation against cruelty, stupidity and prejudice ... a great book' Spectator A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. In this work, written during his brilliant mature period, Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone wanders the Deep South of the United States in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob. Yet after the sacrifice there is new life, a determined ray of light in Faulkner's complex and tragic world. 'One of the great figures of international modernist experiment - a writer with the range, capacities, and formal preoccupations we associate with Joyce, Proust or Virginia Woolf, an experimenter, a symbolist, a witness to modern exile' Malcolm Bradbury

William Faulkner was born in Mississippi in 1897. A legend of American letters, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, and many other works. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950, and died in 1962.

James B. Meriwether is an expert on Faulkner who has been editing Faulkner’s fiction and nonfiction work since the late 1950s. He lives with his wife, Anne, in South Carolina.

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