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As I Lay Dying.
by Faulkner, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with 'ml' and border blind stamped on the front cover; bookplate on the front free endpaper, with
- ISBN 10
- 0394603788
- ISBN 13
- 9780394603780
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Modern Library, 1967.. First Modern Library Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with 'ml' and border blind stamped on the front cover; bookplate on the front free endpaper, with name (writ small) on the verso of the half-title page; otherwise a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 12mo (7.25 inches tall) . Rockwell Kent endpapers. Description: This is book number 378 in the Modern Library series. The copyright page bears the statement (in all caps) ''First Modern Library Edition, February, 1967''. Dust jacket style rear panel style is a special Faulkner back;; binding style 12.
Synopsis
William Faulkner claimed to have written As I Lay Dying, his fifth novel, in just six weeks — with very little revision — while working at power plant in 1929. While this sounds impressive in and of itself, also consider the fact that this novel has 15 different narrators throughout its 59 chapters and has consistently been recognized as one of the greatest works of the American literature. As I Lay Dying is the first book in which Faulkner introduces Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional rendition of his native Lafayette County, Mississippi, which became the setting for some of his best-known works. The author’s self-described “tour de force” follows the death of Addie Bundren and her family’s various notions regarding her burial requests and their journey to Jefferson, in the heart of the county, to fulfill them. Poverty, bad weather, injury, and pregnancy are just some of the hindrances faced along the way. Fittingly, the title of the novel comes from a line in Homer’s The Odyssey: “As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.” Along with The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying helped to secured Faulkner’s stance as a pioneer of the stream-of-consciousness technique, joining the ranks with James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. In vernacular that echoes Mark Twain, the characters of the novel are able to develop gradually through the perceptions of others. Though this requires readers to take an active part in constructing the story, it also allows for multiple, and sometimes, conflicting interpretations. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 for his novels prior to that date, which includes As I Lay Dying. The novel has also directly influenced a number of other critically acclaimed books, including Graham Swift’s Booker prize-winning novel Last Orders and Suzan-Lori Parks’ Getting Mother’s Body, an African-American retelling of the story. As I Lay Dying is ranked 35th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century and 55th on The Guardian’s list of the 100 best novels. The Grammy-nominated metalcore band As I Lay Dying derived its name from this book as well. In 2014, writer/director James Franco released a film adaptation of the novel.
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 068423
- Title
- As I Lay Dying.
- Author
- Faulkner, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: blue cloth with 'ml' and border blind stamped on the front cover; bookplate on the front free endpaper, with
- Edition
- First Modern Library Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394603788
- ISBN 13
- 9780394603780
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1967.
- Pages
- 250 pages.
- Size
- 12mo (7.25 inches tall)
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