As I lay dying

the corrected text

247, pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 20 Novembre 1987 da Vintage Books.

ISBN:
978-0-394-74745-3
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Numero OCLC:
14588263

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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

  • Burial -- Fiction
  • Death -- Fiction
  • Mississippi -- Fiction