As I Lay Dying

By: Faulkner, William

When Addie Bundren dies, her family sets out across the flooded backroads of Mississippi to honor her final wish: to be buried in the distant town of Jefferson. What begins as a simple funeral journey soon becomes a haunting odyssey through hardship, grief, and buried resentment. As storms rage and disaster follows at every turn, each member of the Bundren family struggles with private desires, secret fears, and fragile loyalties that threaten to tear them apart. Told through a remarkable chorus of shifting voices, "As I Lay Dying" reveals the inner lives of its unforgettable characters with raw emotional power and startling intimacy. Farmers, dreamers, outcasts, and children speak in turns, their thoughts weaving together into a portrait of a family driven onward by duty, pride, and desperation. Both darkly humorous and deeply tragic, William Faulkner's landmark novel is a masterpiece of modern American literature-a bold and unforgettable exploration of death, love, suffering, and the strange endurance of the human spirit.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420982877
• ISBN13: 9781420982879
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Digireads.com
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"