Why was it banned?

Dealing with issues of death; abortion

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
Fiction
Info
First Published 1915
250 pages
Author

William Faulkner


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