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The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
2019 | Adventure
I loved this movie. What a beautiful journey and what a way for all of these characters to grow together into a little family. Fantastic.
  
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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated As I Lay Dying in Books

Oct 25, 2017 (Updated Oct 25, 2017)  
As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner, Michael Gorra | 2010 | Fiction & Poetry
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A timeless American classic
This is a classic among American literature - as with most of William Faulkner's novels, it can be hard work at times, but it is tragic, darkly funny and full of compelling characters.

It begins with the death and burial of Addie Bundren, the matriarch of the family. Members of the family narrate the story of carting the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her relatives. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power.

The narrative, told from each character's perspective, yet often about the same event, left the reader to interpret the underlying motive or conflict of feelings within the Bundren family. It is intriguing but requires careful reading of the dense prose.