As I Lay Dying
About 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.
Subjects
- 813/.52
- american domestic fiction
- american fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american manuscripts
- burial
- burial--fiction
- criticism and interpretation
- death
- death--fiction
- death in literature
- domestic fiction
- dysfunctional families
- facsimiles
- families
- family
- fiction
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction in english
- fiction, psychological
- fiction subjects
- history and criticism
- manuscripts
- married women
- mississippi, fiction
- open library staff picks
- parent and adult child
- problem families
- ps3511.a86 a85 2010
- romance norte americano
- social life and customs
- stream-of-consciousness
- world literature
- yoknapatawpha county (imaginary place)
- yoknapatawpha county (imaginary place), fiction