by William Faulkner · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420406732
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Light in August is one of the most representative works by Nobel laureate William Faulkner. In this novel, Faulkner portrays some of his most memorable characters: the candid and intrepid Lena Grove in search of her child's father, Reverend Gal Hightower, tormented by visions of Confederate soldiers, and Joe Christmas, a mysterious vagabond consumed by his racial origins. Faulkner, an innovator in narrative, was the chronicler of his land, becoming one of the most important writers of his century.
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
