Light in August the corrected text
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 of Lena Grove's search for the father of her un...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
1990.
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| Edition: | Vintage international ed. |
| Series: | Vintage international
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| 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 of 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. |
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| Item Description: | 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. |
| Physical Description: | 512 p. ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780679732266 0679732268 9780808563389 0808563386 |
| Author Notes: | JAY PARINI is a poet, novelist, and biographer, and professor of English at Middlebury College. His novels include The Last Station (adapted as an Academy Award-nominated film and translated into more than thirty languages) , Benjamin's Crossing , and The Passages of H.M . He has written biographies of Robert Frost, John Steinbeck, Gore Vidal, William Faulkner, and Jesus. Among his nonfiction books are Borges and Me, Why Poetry Matters , and Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America . |
