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Works by Eudora Welty (Study Guide): Novels by Eudora Welty, Short Stories by Eudora Welty, Short Story Collections by Eudora Welty

Works by Eudora Welty (Study Guide): Novels by Eudora Welty, Short Stories by Eudora Welty, Short Story Collections by Eudora Welty


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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Novels by Eudora Welty, Short Stories by Eudora Welty, Short Story Collections by Eudora Welty, the Optimist's Daughter, a Worn Path, the Robber Bridegroom, a Curtain of Green, the Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Music From Spain. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning 1972 short novel by Eudora Welty. It concerns a woman named Laurel, who travels to New Orleans to take care of her father, Judge McKelva, after he has surgery for a detached retina. He fails to recover from the surgery, though, surrenders to his age, and dies slowly as Laurel reads to him from Dickens. Her father's second wife Fay, who is younger than Laurel, is a shrewish outsider from Texas. Her shrill response to the Judge's illness appears to accelerate his demise. Laurel and Fay are thrown together when they return the Judge to his home town of Mount Salus, Mississippi, where he will be buried. There, Laurel is immersed in the enveloping good neighborliness of the friends and family she knew before marrying and moving away to Chicago. Fay, though, has always been unwelcome and takes off for a long weekend, leaving Laurel in the big house full of memories. Laurel encounters her mother's memory, her father's life after he lost his first wife, and the complex emotions surrounding her loss and the wave of memories in which she swims. She comes to a place of understanding that Fay can never share, and leaves small town Mississippi with the memories she can carry with her. The book begins with the main character Laurel Hand who travels to New Orleans from her home in Chicago to assist her aging father as a family friend operates on his eye. Laurels father (Judge Clint McKelva) remains in the ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=813438


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158722303
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 22
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 45 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158722303
  • Publisher Date: 14 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Novels by Eudora Welty, Short Stories by Eudora Welty, Short Story Collections by Eudora Welty
  • Width: 229 mm


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