As I lay dying

authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism

384 pages

Langue : English

Publié 8 novembre 2010 par W.W. Norton & Co..

ISBN :
978-0-393-93138-9
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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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Sujets

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