384 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2010 by W.W. Norton & Co..
As I lay dying
authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism A Norton critical edition
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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.
Subjects
- Burial -- Fiction
- Death -- Fiction
- Mississippi -- Fiction