Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers [Hardcover]

Rosemary M. Magee (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1992

From Library Journal

This collection of essays, reviews, speeches, and interviews details the interaction among a number of Southwestern women writers, including Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Josephine Humphreys. Occupation, gender, and region conspire to join these authors in kinship, and, like family members, they offer criticism, support, admiration, and understanding to one another. This anthology will be useful both in the college classroom and for the general reader. It is sure to enlighten, entertain, inspire, and delight.

- Dorothy Golden, Georgia Southern Univ., Statesboro

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This collection of essays, reviews, speeches, and interviews details the interaction among a number of Southwestern women writers, including Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Josephine Humphreys. Occupation, gender, and region conspire to join these authors in kinship, and, like family members, they offer criticism, support, admiration, and understanding to one another. This anthology will be useful both in the college classroom and for the general reader. It is sure to enlighten, entertain, inspire, and delight.
- Dorothy Golden, Georgia South ern Univ., Statesboro
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Inside Flap

An anthology of reviews, essays, and appreciations that reveal the links uniting the careers of many noted southern women writers --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 326 pages
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt) (January 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878055231
• ISBN-13: 978-0878055234
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,193,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)