Light in August

"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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/30/1991
ISBN: 9780679732266
Pages: 528
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.28w x 0.90d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 57003 / Light in August: The Corrected Text
Reading Level: 6.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 25