Saturday, September 17, 2011

William Faulkner -- Light in August

Rowan Oak
William Faulkner's home
in Oxford, Mississippi

August is the eighth month of the year. It is back to school in the United States. This is the time when school aged children and college students return to class after a summer break. August is typically a hot month in many parts of the United States.

August is particularly hot and humid in the Deep South in August, especially in Mississippi with its high humidity and lack of wind. Mississippi is the setting for Light in August, a 1932 novel by the American author William Faulkner.

Get a glimpse into life in the Deep South one hundred years ago with this earthy, sweaty, intensely psychological book by one of the South's seminal authors: William Faulkner -- Light in August.

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