As I Lay Dying (Sin and Salvation) - Softcover

William Faulkner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140019405 ISBN 13: 9780140019407

Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade, 1970

Synopsis

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.

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Review:

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.

From the Inside Flap:

At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
• Publication date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0140019405
• ISBN 13: 9780140019407
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 208