William Faulkner
Light in August
Hardcover
(Book-of-the-Month Club March 15, 1997)
1997 Book-of-the-Month Club hardcover, William Faulkner ( As I Lay Dying). The novel is set in the American South in the 1930s, during the time of Prohibition and Jim Crow laws that legalized racial segregation in the South. It begins with the journey of Lena Grove, a young pregnant white woman from Doane's Mill, Alabama, who is trying to find Lucas Burch, the father of her unborn child. He has been fired from his job at Doane's Mill and moved to Mississippi, promising to send word to her when he has a new job. Not hearing from Burch and harassed by her older brother for her illegitimate pregnancy, Lena walks and hitchhikes to Jefferson, Mississippi, a town in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County. There she expects to find Lucas working at another planing mill, ready to marry her. - Wikipedia
- Pages
- 480
- Weight
- 22.4 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.1 x 5.3 in.
Enjoy reading Light in August? You may also like these books
