As I Lay Dying : The Corrected Text (Hardcover)

from rainpebble

I read As I Lay Dying yesterday as I lay trying to get over viral pneumonia and I must say that I enjoyed my first William Faulkner more. As I Lay Dying is the story of a poor family whose mother/wife is dying & the husband has promised her that he would bury her in her hometown with her kinfolk....

from deebee1

I never thought a story about dying and death could be grimly amusing. It sounds macabre, but macabre this story was, and brilliantly, too. Addie Bundren takes awhile dying, and in the opening scene, we find her watching through her bedroom window Cash, her eldest, building a coffin for her. Fina...

from lit_chick

2005, Random House Audio, Read by Marc Cashman, Lina Patel, Robertson Dean, Lorna Raver "... words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at ... motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for...

from araridan

"My mother is a fish." I like stories about the South and what I've read from Faulkner. As I Lay Dying, is most simply a story about a family whose mother dies and the journey the family takes to fulfill her wishes of being buried in her fairly far away hometown. However, this is also a story abo...

from Ghost_Boy

I understand this isn't a favorite among readers of Faulkner and I actually can see why people don't like this book, however I actually enjoyed this book. As I Lay Dying reminds me of Virginia Woolf's the Waves. They both have a similar style and plot. You can read this book as a novel, a short s...