- American Manuscripts, Death, Burial, Open Library Staff Picks
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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Prestige, grave, meticulous and overwhelming.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- William Faulkner
- First published
- 1915
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- J. Cape, H. Smith, Chatto & Windus, Penguin Putnam~trade
- Editions
- 62
- Language
- English, French, est, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9782070383078
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“Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file.”
William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
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