Light in August Audiobook by William Faulkner

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/42/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Light in August Author: William Faulkner Narrator: Will Patton Format: Unabridged Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins Language: English Release date: 08-23-10 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2377 votes Genres: Classics, American Literature Publisher's Summary: Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) Audible is pleased to present Light in August, by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner. An Oprah's Book Club Selection regarded as one of Faulkner's greatest and most accessible novels, Light in August is a timeless and riveting story of determination, tragedy, and hope. In Faulkner's iconic Yoknapatawpha County, race, sex, and religion collide around three memorable characters searching desperately for human connection and their own identities. Audie Award-winning narrator Will Patton lends his voice to Light in August. Patton has narrated works by Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo, Pat Conroy, Denis Johson, Larry McMurtry, and James Lee Burke, and brings to this performance a keen understanding of Faulkner, an authentic feel for the South, and a virtuoso narrator's touch. As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of William Faulkner's book, you'll also receive an exclusive Jim Atlas interview. This interview where James Atlas interviews James Lee Burke about the life and work of William Faulkner begins as soon as the audiobook ends. This production is part of our line, a collection of important works from groundbreaking authors. Editorial Reviews: Having grown up in the South, the daughter of someone who wrote her masters thesis on Southern fiction, the idea of writing even a 300 word review of William Faulkners classic Light in August is intimidating, to say the least. In the South, Faulkner is a rite of passage, someone we all read in high school or college but certainly not since, preferring to celebrate our literary legacy through more contemporary Southern fiction light. Faulkner is just tough its dense and wrought with meaning classic literature at its finest, but not what you would call a beach read (unless youre my mom). And then I listened to Will Patton perform Faulkners Light in August. Faulkners stories are written out of chronological order, in layers, in such a way that you might come to know a story over time from hearing it told by many different people in a place. Those who have studied Faulkner say when you get really caught up in one of the authors page-long sentences, the best thing to do is read it out loud. Its even better to listen. With intonation, and the honey smooth cadence of Pattons voice, the story is suddenly clearer. Patton introduces us to Lena Grove as she begins her journey to find the father of her unborn child, Lucas Burch. Instead she finds Byron Bunch, who feels a strong pull to take care of her, though it puts him in an awkward social position. For guidance, Byron visits the Rev. Gail Hightower, a man so haunted by not even his own past, but that of his grandfather, that he has trapped himself in his own home. Even before we encounter Joe Christmas, the 33-year old drifter of ambiguous race, the allusions to the life and death of Jesus are thick. There is a fire and a murder, and it all unravels from there. Pattons voice carries us through it all, enhancing the story with approachability and authenticity. The Charleston-born Pattons southern accent is true and realnot a touch of the theatrical, overdone linguistics adopted by some other actors. In Light in August, Faulkner addresses themes of morality and race, religion and redemption all too deeply to address in these few words.