C.E. Morgan: ‘Light in August’ is Faulkner’s Great American Novel
Southern Comfort
Novelist C.E. Morgan says Light in August, newly reissued this month, is Faulkner’s claim to the Great American Novel. It’s even more central to the author’s canon than Sound and the Fury or As I Lay Dying, because of its one ineradicably American concern—race.
