As I lay dying
authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
by William Faulkner
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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
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Early 20th century, 1920sShowing 11 featured editions. View all 62 editions?
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As I lay dying: authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism
2010, W.W. Norton & Co.
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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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This edition is based on the 1985 corrected text published by The Library of America, and includes Valery Larbaud's never-before-translated preface to the first French edition.
Includes bibliographical references.
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