Light in August: The Corrected Text (Vintage International) - Softcover

Faulkner, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679732268 ISBN 13: 9780679732266

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1991

Synopsis

"Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window." --William Faulkner

Light in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.

About this title

Review:

"No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about that heart and soul, the fiction where he put it is still right there." --Eudora Welty

"Faulkner's greatness resided primarily in his power to transpose the American scene as it exists in the Southern states, filter it through his sensibilities and finally define it with words." --Richard Wright

Book Description:

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679732268
• ISBN 13: 9780679732266
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528