As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
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Author: William FaulknerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-11-28
ISBN: 0375504524
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Modern Library
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Book Review: Worth the effort!
Summary: 5 Stars
I had to force myself to get through about the first third of the book, but then I was hooked about halfway through. Seriously, seriously warped family and depressing book.... but somehow strangely compelling. After a while you just HAVE to know what could possibly happen next. And every time, every event surprised me. Now that's what I call an amazing book!
Summary of As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying was originally published in 1930, and remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. Told through multiple voices, it vividly brings to life Faulkner's imaginary South, one of the great invented landscapes in all of literature, and is replete with the poignant, impoverished, violent, and hypnotically fascinating characters that were his trademark.This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.
Faulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successful incarnations here in As I Lay Dying. In the story, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where Addie wanted to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each of the members on the macabre pilgrimage, while Faulkner heaps upon them various flavors of disaster. Contains the famous chapter completing the equation about mothers and fish--you'll see.
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