As I Lay Dying.
by William Faulkner
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This novel depicts a family's struggle to get their mother properly buried, while they encounter catastrophes of flood, fire, and the chaos of their own feelings.
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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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2000, Modern Library
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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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