Feb. 1987 Vintage Books mass market paperback, 3rd printing. William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text). the story of a group of barnstormers whose lives are thoroughly unconventional. They live hand-to-mouth, always just a step or two ahead of destitution, and their interpersonal relationships are unorthodox and shocking by the standards of their society and times.