Book · 1932 · Fiction

Light in August

Name: Light in August
Author: William Faulkner

Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 512 pages

★ 7.2 editorial score

Pregnant and walking from Alabama, Lena Grove looks for the man who left her. Nearby a man who cannot say whether he is black or white is running out of room.

Genre

Southern gothic Modernism Stream of consciousness

Medium

Novel

Subject

Murder Race The individual Social outcasts

Setting

Mississippi

Time

1932Depicts 1930s

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