'Read read read. Read everything-trash classics good and bad and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good you'll find out. If it's not throw it out the window.' -William Faulkner
Light in August a novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality features some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless dauntless Lena Grove in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower who is plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen; and Joe Christmas a desperate enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.
