As I Lay Dying
American ManuscriptsDeathBurialOpen Library Staff PicksFiction in English
3.6
Open LibraryAbout this book
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 ManuscriptsDeathBurialOpen Library Staff PicksFiction in EnglishStream-of-Consciousness
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Setting
MississippiEarly 20th century1920s
About the author
William Faulkner
25 September 1897 – 6 July 1962
William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
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