250 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 1972 by Vintage Books.

ISBN:
978-0-394-70254-4
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OCLC Number:
1749298

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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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