As I Lay Dying

By William Faulkner

Subjects: American fiction, Death in literature, Domestic fiction, Problem families, Fiction, family life, general, Death, Open Library Staff Picks, Burial--fiction, Fiction subjects, Yoknapatawpha county (imaginary place), fiction, Dysfunctional families, American Domestic fiction, Romance norte americano, Families, Criticism and interpretation, Death--fiction, Manuscripts, American Manuscripts, Yoknapatawpha County (Imaginary place), Fiction, family life, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Social life and customs, History and criticism, Married women, Facsimiles, World literature, Parent and adult child, Fiction, psychological, Burial, Ps3511.a86 a85 2010, Fiction in English, 813/.52, Mississippi, fiction, Stream-of-Consciousness

Description: 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.