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jcschildbach 's review for:
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
This book could have been gimicky back before gimicky even existed, with Faulkner writing numerous short chapters from the perspective of a number of different characters, but it works and feels like a natural structure to the narrative. In the use of multiple narrators, it's much like "Sound and Fury." Arguably, though, this book is much simpler in its intent and scope, while still plenty ambitious. It's a tribute to Faulkner's skill that the multiple narrators do not confuse things and that it is easy to follow what's happening from who's perspective as a family more-or-less implodes as the head of the family prepares to go to the great beyond.