Light in August

"Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while". Lena Grove is pregnant and alone, travelling across the country in search of her baby's father. Meanwhile, Joe Christmas - a man doomed and deracinated - wanders the Deep South by himself in search of an identity, and a place in society. Both find themselves in the orbit of Joe Brown, a man seen walking away from a house in which the body of a woman burns.
A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme : the nature of evil. Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.