As I Lay Dying
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Author
William Faulkner
Published
July 17, 2009
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But if you're in the mood for a challenge, pick it up.
It's the story of a family going to bury the mother. There's a point in
the novel where the father and son are sitting on the porch, and the
father asks the son a question. About seven pages later, the son
answers the question. It was a startling literary device, and one that
absolutely delighted me. I had to flip back through seven or so pages
of description and tangents to see what the question was that the son
had answered. It gave a true sense of how slowly things moved in this
place. Faulkner was a genius.
