Luce D'agosto by William Faulkner
Set in a small Mississippi county, the novel interweaves the journeys of Lena Grove, a persistent pregnant young woman searching for the child’s father, and Joe Christmas, a troubled biracial drifter whose uncertain racial identity and history of abandonment drive him into isolation and violence. Alongside a disgraced preacher who observes the town’s moral unraveling and a northern woman whose compassion for the outsider ends tragically, the story probes race, faith, fate, and the corrosive power of rumor and prejudice, building to a grim confrontation that lays bare the community’s hypocrisies.
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- Published
- 1932
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 350-400 pages
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
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- La lumière d'août
- Licht im August
- Light in August
- Luce d'agosto
- Luz de agosto
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