As I Lay Dying (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Stream-of-Consciousness Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Death or dying, Storms, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Life and death, Mortality
- Locales: Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)
Before Addie Bundren died, she made her shiftless husband promise to bury her with her family in Jefferson. She obtained this promise to gain revenge against Anse because he has never given her the deep, permanent love for which she longed and which she had experienced only temporarily, in pregnancy and in a brief, passionate affair with a local minister.
She probably never understood that Anse would be invulnerable to her revenge while the rest of her family would suffer badly. On the day of her death, rains flood the river between them and Jefferson, transforming the easy trip...
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