Light in August -- William Faulkner

<p>"Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window." --William Faulkner <p/><i>Light in August</i>, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner's 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.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> William Faulkner<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 01/30/1991<br><b>Pages:</b> 528<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.85lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.98h x 5.28w x 0.90d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679732266<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 6.7<br><b>Point Value:</b> 25<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>57003 / Light in August: The Corrected Text<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of <i>The Sound and the Fury</i>, <i>Absalom, Absalom!</i>, and <i>As I Lay Dying</i>, a, ong many other remarkable books.Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in