As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
 9780679732259
0-679-73225-X

I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall. William Faulkner.

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on As I Lay DyingAs I Lay Dying is Faulkners harrowing account of the Bundren familys odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family membersincluding Addie herselfas well as others the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic. This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.