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        Light In August


        setting

        Yoknapatawpha County, Deep South

        time

        Late 1800s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1932

        page count

        507

        difficulty

        Difficult

        main characters

        Lena Grove, Byron Bunch, Lucas Burch/Joe Brown, Joe Christmas

        Rip's impressions

        A long Faulkner novel that one will either love or hate; he explores mixed race relations.

        first line

        Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, "I have come from Alabama a-walking. A fur piece."

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)