32+ Light In August Book Pictures. Light in august was published after faulkner gained a wide readership 1931, when he published sanctuary. Light in august, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of faulkner's most memorable characters:
Powerfully entwining these characters' stories, light in august vividly brings to life faulkner's imaginary south, one of literature's great invented landscapes, in all of its impoverished, violent, unerringly fascinating glory.
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