From the Nobel Prize winner--one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth century--a novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality. Light in August 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. 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