Light in August
Americannoun
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In 2010, an auction of a Faulkner collection of books and personal items, including one of his most acclaimed novels, "Light in August," brought in $833,246.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2013
Soon he will be in Georgia and Mississippi soaking up attitudes for his version of MacKinlay Kantor's Anders onville and William Faulkner's Light in August.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Light in August, Faulkner demonstrated how the preoccupation with race can make it tragically impossible for a man to know who he really is, and dramatized the mindless virulence of white reaction to miscegenation.
From Time Magazine Archive
But those years mark a time of creative intensity unparalleled in American letters, when Faulkner turned out Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August and Absalom, Absalom!
From Time Magazine Archive
Ifemelu raised her hand; Faulkner’s Light in August, which she had just read, was on her mind.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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