The death burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family , as they cart the coffin to Jefferson , Mississippi , to bury her among her people . And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power as epic as the Old Testament , as American as Huckleberry Finn.
The death burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family , as they cart the coffin to Jefferson , Mississippi , to bury her among her people . And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power as epic as the Old Testament , as American as Huckleberry Finn.
