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The Optimist's Daughter
Author: Eudora Welty
(Paperback, 1990)
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When Laurel Hand, a Chicago widow, goes home to Mississippi to visit her sick father, she discovers ...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 067972883X
ISBN-13: 9780679728832
Aug 1990
Publisher: Harpercollins
180 pages
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
When Laurel Hand, a Chicago widow, goes home to Mississippi to visit her sick father, she discovers that he is now married to Fay, a woman younger than herself. Quiet and demure Laurel and the very crass Fay unsurprisingly take an immediate dislike to each other, and their clashes are heightened by competition for the Judge's affections and estate. The contrasts between Laurel and Fay are about not only about personality but also class and background--and Eudora Welty explores the situation with her usual acumen and buoyant wit. THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER, a spin-off from one of her New Yorker stories, won a Pulitzer Prize when it was published in 1972.
| Size | | Length: | 180 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[This novel] which first appeared in The New Yorker of March 15, 1969, is a miracle of compression, the kind of book, small in scope but profound in its implications, that rewards a lifetime of work....Its story has all those qualities peculiar to the finest short novels: a theme that vibrates with overtones, suspense and classical inevitability....[Laurel's] childhood days at Becky's mountaintop house in West Virginia, which recall Becky's childhood as well, are the most beautiful passages in the Welty canon, extraordinary passages in an extraordinary book....The best book Eudora Welty has ever written, [this] is a long goodbye in a very short space not only to the dead but to delusion and to sentiment as well."
New York Times Book Review - Howard Moss (05/21/1972)
"The contrast between the effusive sentiment of the old neighbors and the insensitive curiosity of the strangers is shocking comedy, amusing to the ear, infuriating to Laurel, and the most skillful piece of comedy."
Atlantic Monthly - Edward Weeks (06/19/1972)
"Eudora Welty's merciless tenderness toward her people is Chekhovian in its lightness, clarity, and comprehension. 'The Optimist's Daughter' is as profoundly imagined as it is modestly told. It has the gleam of permanence."
Weeks
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Other Editions
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Hardcover, 1996 - $57.26
Paperback, 1991 - $5.99 Save 65%
Binding Unknown, 1978 - $0.75
Paperback, 1990 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
Paperback, 2000 - $0.75 Save 96%
Audio, 1986 - $2.75 Save 89%
Binding Unknown, 1972 - $0.75
Hardcover, 2002 - $3.97 Save 80%
Hardcover, 1999 - $53.74
Binding Unknown, 1973 - $17.85
Binding Unknown, 1972 - $0.75
Hardcover, 1990 - Not in stock. Add to Wish List
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