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5.0 out of 5 stars
Tour de Force in American Literature,
This review is from: THE LIGHT IN AUGUST (Hardcover)
I read Light in August as a 30-something adult, having skipped it over on my summer reading lists during school. I'm glad I waited. This book is way too powerful and complex for a High School mind. Maybe wait until after college too! I am looking forward to the chance to read it again.
This book is a massive tour de force, inexplicably underappreciated in American literature. In LIA, Faulkner exhibits throughout the book the ability to lead you exactly where he wants you to go. You feel totally enraptured by his storytelling, and eagerly await his guidance at every turn. There were several occasions where I felt so totally struck by his words, or the turn of the plot, or a characterization, that I just plopped the book down and screamed out lout, "Oh, MAN!!" One of my favorites is when the sherrif discovers a body and says "if she had been able to that alive, she wouldn't be dead now." You'll have to read the book to find out what she was "doing." The book begins with a young woman walking down a dirt road into town. It ends with her riding out of town with a husband. Simple enough, but in between there are 500 pages in which she barely appears!! It's all a whirlwind examination of racism, regret, and the many complexities of the human condition. Pick it up and you won't put it down!! |
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THE LIGHT IN AUGUST by WILLIAM FAULKNER (Hardcover - 1959)
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