Light In August
William Faulkner
Lena Grove is pregnant and alone, travelling across the country in search oí her baby´s father. Meanwhile, Joe Christmas - a man doomed and deracinated - wanders the Deep South by himself in search of an identity, and a place in society. Both flnd themselves in the orbit of Joe Brown, a man seen walking away from a house in whlch the body of a woman burns. A landmark in America...
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Lena Grove is pregnant and alone, travelling across the country in search oí her baby´s father. Meanwhile, Joe Christmas - a man doomed and deracinated - wanders the Deep South by himself in search of an identity, and a place in society. Both flnd themselves in the orbit of Joe Brown, a man seen walking away from a house in whlch the body of a woman burns. A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner´s central theme: the nature of evil.
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