School & Library Binding
English language
Published Oct. 8, 1999 by Tandem Library.
As I Lay Dying
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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
- Mississippi
- Classics
- Literary
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Death
- Domestic fiction
- Burial
- Fiction