
As I Lay Dying
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Narrated by:
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Marc Cashman
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Robertson Dean
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Lina Patel
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Lorna Raver
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Jesmyn Ward
A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother.
As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of the family members, including Addie herself as well as others, the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos.
“I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall.”—William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying
This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.
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Expect to WORK through this book.
And expect the best of literature and performance. Expect to learn. Expect to expand your insight into frustration and futility. Expect to feel pain.
This is a great piece of literature and it's very well delivered.
Worth the effort.
You Have to "Get" Faulkner
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On the down side, listening to the book, you miss the opportunity to go back to the passages of pure poetry or some kind of feat in language that the author may have written and you could miss it just listening to the audio. What is poetry to the director or the actor may not be so to you and vice versa. I mean it is hard to describe, but I am veteran reader of classic literature and I just know that by not reading the page, I missed the elegant delivery of William Faulkner some how. It is just something about the page on a book that you can mark and comment, and go back even years later that the audio version would not facilitate.
Still I am really happy that I listened to this work, I get it, why they offer a kindle version of the printed book along with the audio; it makes sense. But money wise, it is just more expensive. Besides, my purpose of becoming an audible member was to make better use of my commute time.
I look forward to enjoy other works of this kind of literature here in audible.
Excelent performance, amazing direction
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Made the narrative and story clearer
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Faulkner in authentic voices
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Listening to a Play
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Clarity
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great ensemble performance of an American classic
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awesome!!
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Beautiful, grim, and hilarious
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The travails of the Bundren family are painful to watch. They all have their secrets from each other. They are all flawed individuals. They have barely held together as a family. Watching them all stumble through the trial of dealing with Addie's death makes you wonder how they can possibly all stay together much longer. But there are counterforces at work too.
One thing I cannot understand is how a 270 page book can be narrated in under 7 hours. I guess I will have to go look at a paper copy and try to figure it out.
The use of 4 readers for this book is extremely helpful in sorting out which of the 15 narrators is speaking at any given time. In general I give them high marks for conveying Faulkner's language and coping with the ambiguities of stream-of-consciousness writing. The one exception I have to comment on is the voice chosen for Dewey Dell. The reader chooses to make Dewey Dell into a kind of wispy, ethereal, dreamy teenager. She fails to capture any of the sullen, angry adolescent that Faulkner constantly hints is at the core of Dewey Dell's character.
However, that minor complaint in no way detracts from the overall quality of this audiobook. It's not about Dewey Dell, any more than it is about Anse, Cash, Darl, Jewel, Vardamon or even Addie. It's ultimately about something else. Something I don't know how to express. Faulkner knew how to express it, but it took him a whole book to do it.
Ain't no end to bad luck when once it starts
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