Light in August (The Corrected Text)

by William Faulkner

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Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, USA

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Joe Christmas, Lena, Lucas Burch, Byron Bunch, Gail Hightower

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The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels (The Reader's List, 89)

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679732268, Paperback)

Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man.

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