With their mother's coffin in a wagon, a family struggles through the Mississippi countryside encountering flood and fire before they can lay the body to rest.
My first encounter with the American author William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying," one of his shortest works, was his fifth novel published in 1930, written in less than six weeks. It's narrated by an impressive 15 different characters!
Addie Bundren, wife and mother of five children, is dying in her ...