{"product_id":"as-i-lay-dying","title":"As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren family's bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member -- including Addie -- and others along the way tell their private responses to Addie's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"He is the greatest artist the South has produced.... Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century [yet] for all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for greatness of our classics.\" --\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Ellison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about that heart and soul, the fiction where he put it is still right there.\" -- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eEudora Welty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWILLIAM CUTHBERT FAULKNER\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sound and the Fury\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAs I Lay Dying\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, among many other remarkablebooks. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France's Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45930173989050,"sku":"9780679732259","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_349fd601-f53a-439f-8653-e232826d2303.jpg?v=1780201826","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/as-i-lay-dying","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}