From the Nobel Prize winnerтАФone of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth centuryтАФa novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality.
Light in August features some of FaulknerтАЩs 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.
тАЬRead, read, read. Read everythingтАФtrash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! YouтАЩll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, youтАЩll find out. If itтАЩs not, throw it out the window.тАЭ тАФWilliam Faulkner