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Light in August : the corrected text

Call Number

  • FICTION FAUL (CEN, OSH)

Edition

Vintage international ed.

Publication Information

New York : Vintage Books, 1990.

Physical Description

512 p. ; 21 cm.

Summary

Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man. Light in August is the story od Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.

Notes

Originally published: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932.

"This revised text and the notes are reprinted from Novels 1930-1935 by William Faulkner, published by the Library of America, 1985, by permission"--T.p. verso.

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