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The Optimist's Daughter: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Vintage International) - Softcover

Welty, Eudora

 
9780679728832: The Optimist's Daughter: Pulitzer Prize Winner (Vintage International)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 067972883X ISBN 13: 9780679728832
Verlag: Vintage, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Along in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.

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Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mis-sissippi, in 1909. She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Her short stories appeared in The Southern Review, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker, and other magazines. She lectured at a number of colleges, held the William Allan Neilson professorship at Smith and the Lucy Donnelly Fellowship at Bryn Mawr, and was a lecturer at the Conference of American Studies at Cambridge University. She worked under grants from the Rockefeller and Merrill foundations and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and held a Guggenheim Fellow-ship. She was given honorary degrees from Smith, the University of Wisconsin, Western College for Women, Denison University, the University of the South at Sewanee, and Millsaps College in Jackson. She also received the M. Carey Thomas Award from Bryn Mawr, the Brandeis Medal of Achievement, and the Hollins Medal; her novel The Ponder Heart was awarded the Howells Medal for Fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Eudora Welty died in 2001.

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This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
067972883X
ISBN 13 
9780679728832
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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