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Loading... A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying/The Sound and the Fury/Light in August (Oprah's Book Club) (edition 2005)by William Faulkner
Work InformationAs I Lay Dying / The Sound and the Fury / Light in August by William Faulkner (Author)
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |  I will admit it. I have never watched Oprah on television. Thankfully, my wife is a fan. Otherwise I would have missed this opportunity to spend time with my favorite author – William Faulkner. I was introduced to Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County while I was in college. Back then I was asked to read The Sound and the Fury. I will admit I was more than a little confused with what I was later to learn was Faulkner’s hallmark shifting of the narration from one character to another; his disorienting disruptions of a timely chronology. As I read more, I began to appreciate the genius behind the technique. It was like my days as a newspaper reporter. Each witness to a story had his or her version of what had happened. The more I dug, the more likely I was to emerge with a story that resembled the true event. While Faulkner’s narration and characters appear complex, his themes are simple. He writes about life’s great issues – life and death, good and evil, love and hate, wealth and poverty, individual and family, sanity and insanity, success and failure. Faulkner's characters speak to their ability to transcend their settings and endure their sufferings. They emerge pained, yet ennobled. Although I am not fond of the heat and humidity, I am looking forward to spending a portion of my summer’s reading time in the Mississippi hill country of Yoknapatawpha County. (  ) PointedPundit | Mar 25, 2008 | Henk | Dec 30, 2007 | and Eudora Welty: "No man ever put more of his heat and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about the heart and soul, the fiction where he put it is still right there." I've read much about him. Once, when he was in Hollywood, he was invited to play golf with Clark Gable. Gableasked him, "Do you write?" Sometime later, Faulkner asked Gable, "And you, Mr. Gable, what do you do? Act? louparris | Dec 4, 2007 | no reviews | add a review
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The 2005 Summer Selection is available in an exclusive three volume boxed edition that includes a special reader’s guide with an introduction by Oprah Winfrey. Titles include: As I Lay DyingThis novel is the harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Told in turns by each of the family members–including Addie herself–the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Originally published in 1930. The Sound and the FuryFirst published in 1929, Faulkner created his “heart’s darling,” the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers–the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. Light in AugustLight in August, a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, mysterious drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry. Originally published in 1932. Take a seat in Oprah’s Classroom and sign up for Faulkner 101 on www.oprah.com/bookclub. No library descriptions found. |
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