Light in August Australia longed for a life with

longed for a life with fewer restrictions and more tolerance

" written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation

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In their youth

Light in August Australia longed for a life withAuthor Contributor(s): Faulkner, William Publisher: Vintage Date: 1 30 1991 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW From the Nobel Prize winnerone of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth centurya novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality. Light in August features some of Faulkners most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child;