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Light in August : the corrected text
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Light in August : the corrected text

Author: William Faulkner
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
Series: Vintage international
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : Vintage international edView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Allegories., Stream of consciousness fiction.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William Faulkner
ISBN: 0679732268 : 9780679732266 0808563386 9780808563389
OCLC Number: 21525352
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.
Description: 512 p. ; 21 cm.
Series Title: Vintage international
Responsibility: William Faulkner.
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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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