As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text - Softcover

Faulkner, William

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9780804170413: As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text

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ISBN 10: 080417041X ISBN 13: 9780804170413

Publisher: Vintage Books, 2013

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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-10 Pages: 267 Language: English Publisher: Vintage Books 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 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. As they carry Addie in a homemade coffin. pulled along by a team of mules. the Bundrens are haunted by greed and fear-their journey both mocks and confirms our humanity. Their story is told in turn by each of the family members-including Addie herself-as well as those they encounter on their way. This fractured viewpoint epitomizes Faulkners visceral modernist style. as the varied voices reveal secrets. expose desires. and br...

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For range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterization, humor, and tragic intensity, [Faulkner's works] are without equal in our time and country --Robert Penn Warren

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'Brilliant and compelling - one is constrained to follow to the end' Spectator

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