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One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, 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 Jef...

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Main Author: Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 (Author)
Other Authors: Cashman, Marc (Narrator), Dean, Robertson (Narrator), Patel, Lina (Narrator), Raver, Lorna (Narrator)
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Language:English
Published: New York : Random House Audio, 2006.
Edition:Unabridged.
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Burial > Fiction.
Death > Fiction.
Mississippi > Fiction.
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Summary:One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, 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, As I Lay Dying vividly brings to life Faulkner's imaginary South, one of literature's great invented landscapes, and is replete with the poignant, impoverished, violent, and hypnotically fascinating characters that were his trademark.
Item Description:Unabridged.
Physical Description:1 online resource (6 audio files) : digital
Playing Time:06:51:48
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Audience:Text Difficulty 4 - Text Difficulty 5
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ISBN:9780739345382
Author Notes:WILLIAM FAULKNER was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury , As I Lay Dying , and Absalom, Absalom! , among many other remarkable books. Faulkner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice, the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1949, and France's Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.

JESMYN WARD has received the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, the Strauss Living Prize, and the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She is the historic winner--first woman and first Black American--of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones . Her memoir Men We Reaped was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.

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