
- Publisher:
- VINTAGE
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78487-858-0
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 American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner´s central theme: the nature of evil.