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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:  - 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 ... 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 ... Read More
Rating: - As I Lay Dying
Faulkner at his best & easiest to read. Ordered it for a book club review & gained new readers for Faulkner. (And customers for Amazon; not available locally)
Rating:  - A waste of paper, ink, and my time. Horrible and overrated
I cannot recommend this book. History and time often creates legends out of the mere ordinary. This book and all of Faulkners works are horrible and would not find a publisher if written in 2008. There is not an editor alive that would read past the first chapter of As I lay dying. It is a dud. There is no reason to read it. None. The story is not interesting. Faulkners "stream of consciousness" writing style is not interesting. Nothing about this book is worthwhile, except to say that you've read ... Read More
Rating: - Harrowing and thought provoking
As I Lay Dying is my 2nd Faulkner novel. I read The Sound and the Fury many years ago, and did not care for it, maybe because I was too impatient with it's stylistic complexities. Having read Joyce and Woolf since then, I returned to Faulkner with a greater appreciation of the internal monologue/stream of consciousness technique those other writers employed to perfection. Faulkner uses that method, but hones it to a razor sharp clarity of purpose in this novel.
As I Lay Dying tells the ... Read More
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