Light in August: The Corrected Text - Rilegato

Faulkner, William

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ISBN 10: 067964248X ISBN 13: 9780679642480

Casa editrice: Modern Library, 2002

Riassunto

In a novel about hopeless perseverance in the face of mortality, guileless Lena Grove searches for the father of her unborn child, Reverend Hightower is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen, and drifter Joe Christmas is consumed by his mixed ancestry. 10,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

For all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for the greatness of our classics. --Ralph Ellison

L'autore:

William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. He published his first book, The Marble Faun (a collection of poems), in 1924, and his first novel, Soldier's Pay, in 1926. In 1949, having written such works as Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He also received the Pulitzer Prize for two other novels, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962). From 1957 to 1958 he was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia. He died on July 6, 1962, in Byhalia, Mississippi.

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• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 067964248X
• ISBN 13: 9780679642480
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 496