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Written in stream-of-consciousness style with multiple narrators, the story follows a journey wherein the family of a dead woman try to transport her body to her birthplace in Mississippi in accordance with her wishes. When a ford across a river is flooded they are forced to take a roundabout route and it becomes a desperate race to complete their mission before the body begins to decompose.
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American Manuscripts, Death, Burial, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction in English, Stream-of-Consciousness, Facsimiles, Fiction, Problem families, Married women, Parent and adult child, Manuscripts, Dysfunctional families, Families, Criticism and interpretation, Social life and customs, Domestic fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Yoknapatawpha county (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Mississippi, fiction, Fiction, family life, American Domestic fiction, History and criticism, Death in literature, Romance norte americano, Fiction, family life, general, Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place), Burial--fiction, Death--fiction, Ps3511.a86 a85 2010, 813/.52, American fiction, World literature, Fiction subjectsPeople
William Faulkner (1897-1962)Places
MississippiTimes
Early 20th century, 1920sShowing 10 featured editions. View all 62 editions?
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As I lay dying: the corrected text
2000, Modern Library
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As I lay dying: the corrected text
1990, Vintage Books
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