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As I Lay Dying
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780679732259
ISBN: 067973225X
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: January 30, 1991
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: January 30, 1991
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial 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.
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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Worth the effort!
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!
Rating: - A Grim, Morbid, and Compelling Tale
Wow! This novel is quite morbid, and grim. Probably most analogous with some of Cormac McCarthy's more dark epics. You read on to see how low this family can sink into a depraved, stingy, and heartless abyss. Faulkner was certainly a genius.
Rating: - Now I can get them teeth...
In *As I Lay Dying* the Bundren family is on a death-watch as Addie--wife and mother--dies. Within view of her deathbed, through the window, she can see one of her sons, Cash, building her coffin. With that macabre beginning, Faulkner tells a story as compact and grotesque as it is powerful and unforgettable.
It's giving away nothing to say that Addie soon heaves her last because the real story begins after she dies. Anse, the toothless, luckless family patriarch, has promised ... Read More
Rating:  - Of no real literary worth
Reviews are by nature subjective. That said, their should be a common element, an underlying current that runs through all reviews which peg the book (in this instance) at a similar level. That established, here I find myself rather baffled as to how anyone can either dredge or salvage anything from this book that would elevate it beyond a three star rating at maximum; there must be an element of consensus, because this book (or indeed any) has a basic content and structure, characters and plot that ... Read More
Rating: - Homegoing
One of the most important writers of the twentieth century in any country, William Faulkner could tell a rousing tale. Check your collective memory. You're sitting around the campfire and the the storyteller begins.
When it is Faulkner, expect the unexpected. As I Lay Dying. As Dead I Am Carried to My Homeplace. The first sentence: "Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file." When they get to the cottonhouse, Darl, the narrator takes the path around, Jewel goes ... Read More
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