485 pages
English language
Published 1987 by Garland Pub..
As I lay dying
holograph manuscript and carbon typescript William Faulkner manuscripts ;
2 stars
(1 review)
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
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles
- Manuscripts, American -- Facsimiles
- Burial -- Fiction
- Death -- Fiction
- Mississippi -- Fiction