This collection combines stories set in Welty's special province, the rural South, with stories having a European locale. This gives a wider range to her fiction and demonstrates the remarkable talent of one of the finest short-story writers of our time. "Humorous, piquant, graceful" (Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Sewanee Review).
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Collection of short stories by Eudora Welty, published in 1955. The seven stories, focused largely on female characters, elaborate upon tenuous relationships of the heart in a difficult world and upon the importance of place; they share a more experimental, allusive style than the rest of her work. -- The Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature
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EUDORA WELTY (1909-2001) was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and attended the Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University (where she studied advertising). In addition to short fiction, Welty wrote novels, novellas, essays, and reviews, and was the winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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They were strangers to each other, both fairly well strangers to the place, now seated side by side at luncheon-a party combined in a free-and-easy way when the friends he and she were with recognized each other across Galatoire's. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sister Anne, Miss Theo, Miss Myra, Miss Hattie, Uncle Felix, Aunt Ethel, Aldo Scampo, Gala Night, Joe Monteoliveto, New Orleans, Miss Crosby, New York, Little Muscadine, Uncle Theodore New!
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They were strangers to each other, both fairly well strangers to the place, now seated side by side at luncheon-a party combined in a free-and-easy way when the friends he and she were with recognized each other across Galatoire's. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sister Anne, Miss Theo, Miss Myra, Miss Hattie, Uncle Felix, Aunt Ethel, Aldo Scampo, Gala Night, Joe Monteoliveto, New Orleans, Miss Crosby, New York, Little Muscadine, Uncle Theodore New!
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