Light in August
William Faulkner
Apr 2006 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Scott Brick
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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.
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.
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 wh...
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IT MAY HAVE SUPERFICIALLY BEEN FORCED TO DO BY THE INHERITORS OF ABE LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, LIKE FREDERICK DOUGLAS OR THE QUOTE: 'LIBERAL NORTH.' IT, THAT IS DIXIE HAS RENEGED ON EVERY CONCESSION IT WAS FORCED TO MAKE AS A CAPTIVE VASSAL STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO OUR CHAGRIN AND DEMISE HAS CATAPULTED A WHITE RACIST SUPREMACIST TO THE WHITE HOUSE THAT WE BELATEDLY REALIZE NOW IS USING MOB MONEY, INGENUITY, CRAFTINESS, CUNNING, ARTIFICE AND SO MUCH MUCH MORE TO DESTROY THIS NATION CONCEIVED IN JUSTICE, EQUALITY, LIBERTY AND CHRISTIAN PRECEPTS FOR ALL. THE SOUTH IS CHUCKLING TO ITSELF SECRETLY AND CLEVERLY PLANNING ITS NEXT CHAOTIC K.O PUNCH TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO BRING IT DOWN SO IT NEVER GETS UP AGAIN <<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>> PART III NEXT
About the author
William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun, in 1924, but it is as a literary chronicler of life in the Deep South—particularly in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, the setting for several of his novels—that he is most highly regarded. In such novels as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom! he explored the full range of post–Civil War Southern life, focusing both on the personal histories of his characters and on the moral uncertainties of an increasingly dissolute society. In combining the use of symbolism with a stream-of-consciousness technique, he created a new approach to fiction writing. In 1949 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. William Faulkner died in Byhalia, Mississippi, on July 6, 1962.
William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun, in 1924, but it is as a literary chronicler of life in the Deep South—particularly in the fictional Yoknapatawpha Count...
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