Larger	AS I LAY DYING - V745 Author: William Faulkner
	Book Information Publisher: Vintage Book Type: Paperback Rating: 29 ISBN-13: 9780394747453 - ISBN-10: 0394747453 Publication Date: 2/12/1987 Pages: 256 Book Reviews

One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying was originally published in 1930, and remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. Told through multiple voices, it vividly brings to life Faulkner's imaginary South, one of the great invented landscapes in all of literature, and is replete with the poignant, impoverished, violent, and hypnotically fascinating characters that were his trademark.