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3.6 · 250 pages · First published 1915
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.
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Subjects
American ManuscriptsDeathBurialFiction in EnglishStream-of-ConsciousnessFacsimilesFictionProblem familiesMarried womenParent and adult childManuscriptsDysfunctional familiesFamiliesCriticism and interpretationSocial life and customsDomestic fictionAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Yoknapatawpha county (imaginary place), fictionFiction, psychologicalMississippi, fiction
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- J. Cape, H. Smith, Chatto & Windus, Penguin Putnam~trade, Anagrama, Modern Library, Cram Cassettes Study Guides
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- eng, fre, est, spa