As I lay dying
the corrected text
2000 Modern Library ed.
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Author
Publication
2000 - Modern Library, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
65,250 words, Guess
Page Count
261 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6791959M
- ISBN-100375504524
- OCLC Control Number44541799
- OCLC Control Numberasilaydyingcorre0000faul
- Library of Congress Control Number00056254
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- Goodreads10974
- LibraryThing3360
Classifications
- DDC813/.52
- LCCPS3511.A86 A85 2000
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.
Description
"As I Lay Dying was originally published in 1930, and remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. Told through multiple voices, it vividly brings to life Faulkner's imaginary South, one of the great invented landscapes in all of literature, and is replete with the poignant, impoverished, violent and hypnotically fascinating characters that were his trademark."--BOOK JACKET.
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