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- Edition:
- Unabridged (Random House Audio)
- Length:
- 17 hours, 21 minutes
- File Size:
- 477 MB (14 files)
- Published:
- April 2002
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Review by Alfred Soto, eMusic
One of the most harrowing portraits of post-Reconstruction race relations ever penned.
A pregnant girl wanders from town to town, projecting an almost pathological cheerfulness. A sociopath of mixed blood survives a fundamentalist upbringing; his romance with an erudite local girl brings him no closer to learning his origins. William Faulkner wrote more structurally dizzying novels than Light in August, but none which exposed the gnarled roots of what post-Reconstruction race relations looked like when messianic fervor got tangled with it; this is what The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying only stooped to suggest. Scott Brick’s reading is particularly effective when reading Joe Christmas’ dialogue; the listener tumbles into the chasm created by the distance between Christmas’ monstrous deeds and Brick’s measured tones.
A pregnant girl wanders from town to town, projecting an almost pathological cheerfulness. A sociopath of mixed blood survives a fundamentalist upbringing; his romance with an erudite local girl brings him no closer to learning his origins. William Faulkner wrote more structurally dizzying novels than Light in August, but none which exposed the gnarled roots of what post-Reconstruction race relations looked like when messianic fervor got tangled with it; this is what The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying only stooped to suggest. Scott Brick’s reading is particularly effective when reading Joe Christmas’ dialogue; the listener tumbles into the chasm created by the distance between Christmas’ monstrous deeds and Brick’s measured tones.
Quotes from the Critics
"LIGHT IN AUGUST is a powerful novel, a book which secures Mr. Faulkner's place in the front rank of American writers of fiction. He definitely has removed the objection made against him that he cannot lift his eyes above the dunghill. There are time when Mr. Faulkner is not unaware of the stars." - New York Times Book Review
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