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Light in August

William Faulkner

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1932
Pages
Pages 510

A heavily pregnant woman walks calmly across the South searching for her child's father, while a man of uncertain race in the same town, caught between both sides of its colour line, is hunted and killed for a murder he may have committed.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.
Light in August, William Faulkner

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