Optimist's Daughter
by:
Eudora Welty (author)
The Optimist's Daughter is 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. Alone...
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The Optimist's Daughter is 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. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780848806606 (0848806603)
Publish date: November 10th 1996
Publisher: Amereon Ltd
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Family,
Southern,
Death,
Gothic,
Southern Gothic
Another New Review! THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER http://tinyurl.com/p9ualay Such a beautiful title, beautiful writing, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1973...and so much to say about getting older, losing folks you love. A wonderful book I'm glad I read.
"Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart that can empty but fill again, in the patterns restored by dreams."Eudora WeltyEudora Welty won the Pulitzer Prize for this book in 1973. It was written much later than the bulk of the rest of her w...
Enjoyed this book thoroughly. Another one I wish I would have bought.
The year before Eudora Welty began writing this book, her mother and last remaining brother died (her other brother had died six years previously). Before that, Welty had spent years caring for her mother in declining health, and their relationship had always been difficult and guilt-laden. The Opti...
I've liked Welty's work in the past, and this is a good book. But I would leave like it at that even though it won the Pulitzer. It was the Judge's character and his recent actions (the young second wife) that I felt were not handled well enough. I can see many reasons why he may decided to just die...
11 years ago
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