As I Lay Dying: A Norton Critical Edition

"Michael Gorra approaches his second edition of As I Lay Dying with the scholarly care, attention, and intellectual suppleness typical of all his work. Not only does his introduction sparkle-navigating us with ease and fluency through the history and significance of a novel that precisely because of what Gorra rightly calls its formal "perfect[ion]" is often admired less than Faulkner's other, more "monumental" and "difficult" texts. But Gorra's choice of supplementary materials also reflec...