Main Title: As I Lay Dying
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Author: Faulkner, William
First Published: 1930
Publisher Used for Citing: Vintage
Type: Fiction
Period: 20th Century

Rating: 3.5 / 5 (2 votes)

He begins to move slowly backward from the bed, his eyes round, his pale face fading into the dusk like a piece of paper pasted on a failing wall, and so out of the door.


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