Lucas Burch

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2020-01-30 15:13
Character Key Number: 
3012
Display Name: 
Lucas Burch
Sort Name: 
Burch, Lucas
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In Light in August, Lucas Burch is "tall, young. Dark complected" (55). One of the "sawdust Casanovas" among the Doane's Mill workers, Lucas Burch impregnates and deserts Lena Grove in Alabama (6). He finds his way to Jefferson, where, unimaginatively changing his name to "Joe Brown," he takes a menial job in the planing mill, but he quits to join Christmas as partner in a bootleg whiskey business.

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