William Faulkner
Light in August
Paperback
(Quality Paperback Book Club March 15, 1994)
, First Edition edition
Story of a young pregnant woman, Lena Grove, who enter the town of Jefferson, to which she has traced her vanished lover, Lucas Burch. Violence in the town leave another woman dead and her lover Joe Christmas held responsible. Faulkner recounts in some of his most brilliant writing the tragic life of Joe Christmas and the townspeople of Jefferson.