The Bundren family hauls their mother's coffin across a flooded, fire-threatened Mississippi countryside to bury her as she wished, the journey narrated in turns by fifteen shifting voices.
Books that mention As I Lay Dying (2)
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine: “Named among books faced out on the shelf”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “The first is constituted by William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts, Thomas Pyn chon's The Crying of Lot 49, and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.”