As I lay dying

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William Faulkner: As I lay dying (1930, J. Cape, H. Smith)

254, pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 20 Novembre 1930 da J. Cape, H. Smith.

Numero OCLC:
2790338

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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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Argomenti

  • Parent and adult child -- Fiction
  • Problem families -- Fiction
  • Married women -- Fiction
  • Death -- Fiction
  • Mississippi -- Fiction