
Light in August
William Faulkner (1932)
“A man who might be Black, might be white, and will never be allowed to be neither walks into a town that will destroy him for the ambiguity it cannot tolerate.”
EraAmerican Modernism / Southern Gothic
Pages507
Difficulty★★★★☆ Advanced
AP Appearances7
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