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Oprah Winfrey's demanding but rewarding reading selection for summer, 2005, is actually three novels, all by William Faulkner. Included are AS I LAY DYING, a stream-of-consciousness novel narrated from 15 different points of view, about the efforts of a family of poor whites to transport the dead body of Addie, the matriarch, for burial back to her home town in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi; THE SOUND AND THE FURY, considered by many to be Faulkner's finest work, about the decline of the once aristocratic Compson family, as told in four often challenging stream-of-consciousness narratives; and LIGHT IN AUGUST, a dark novel about race relations in the South, in which Joe Christmas, an orphaned man with a mysterious past, shunned because he is part black, meets a tragic and gruesome end at the hands of a driven and obsessive bigot who embodies the worst of his society.
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 2.5 in | | Weight: | 33.6 oz |
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