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Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an...

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Burns throughout with a fierce indignation against cruelty, stupidity and prejudice - a great book * Spectator *
Faulkner has inexhaustible invention, powerful imagination, and he writes, generally, like an angel -- Arnold Bennett
By universal consent of critics and common readers, Faulkner is now recognised as the strongest American novelist of the century, clearly surpassing (Ernest) Hemingway and (Scott) Fitzgerald, and standing as an equal in the sequence that includes Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain and Henry James -- Harold Bloom
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Light in August

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A Paperback / softback by William Faulkner

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    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 05/10/2000
    ISBN13: 9780099283157, 978-0099283157
    ISBN10: 0099283158
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an...

    Trade Review
    Burns throughout with a fierce indignation against cruelty, stupidity and prejudice - a great book * Spectator *
    Faulkner has inexhaustible invention, powerful imagination, and he writes, generally, like an angel -- Arnold Bennett
    By universal consent of critics and common readers, Faulkner is now recognised as the strongest American novelist of the century, clearly surpassing (Ernest) Hemingway and (Scott) Fitzgerald, and standing as an equal in the sequence that includes Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain and Henry James -- Harold Bloom
    Magisterial * Independent *

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