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The Optimist's Daughter
Welty, Eudora

The Optimist's Daughter

Vintage (Aug 11, 1990)
9780679728832
| Paperback
192 pages | 132 x 203 mm | English
$ 12.00 | Value: $ 12.00
Dewey F WEL
LC Classification PS3545.E6 .O6 1990
LC Control No. 89040630

Genre

  • Fiction

Subject

  • Domestic Fiction
  • Fathers/ Death/ Fiction
  • Funeral Rites And Ceremonies/ Fiction
  • Psychological Fiction
  • Women/ Mississippi/ Fiction

Plot

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.