The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty.

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Call Number: Fiction / Welty, Eudora, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Welty, Eudora
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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A curtain of green and other stories. Lily Daw and the three ladies -- A piece of news -- Petrified man -- The key -- Keela, the outcast Indian maiden -- Why I live at the P.O. -- The whistle -- The hitch-hikers -- A memory -- Clytie -- Old Mr. Marblehall -- Flowers for Marjorie -- A curtain of green -- A visit of charity -- Death of a traveling salesman -- Powerhouse -- A worn path -- The wide net and other stories. First love -- The wide net -- A still moment -- Asphodel -- The winds -- The purple hat -- Livvie -- At the landing -- The golden apples. Shower of gold -- June recital -- Sir Rabbit -- Moon Lake -- The whole world knows -- Music from Spain -- The wanderers -- The bride of the Innisfallen and other stories. No place for you, my love -- The burning -- The bride of the Innisfallen -- Ladies in spring -- Circe -- Kin -- Going to Naples -- Uncollected stories. Where is the voice coming from? -- The demonstrators.
This omnibus volume by one of the South's greatest writers includes stories published prior to 1980. Stories are as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. The breadth of Welty's offering is finally most visible not in the variety of types--farce, satire, horror, lyric, pastoral, mystery--but in the clarity and solidity and absolute honesty of a lifetime's vision.

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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty submitted by leighsprauer on April 15, 2023, 7:22pm This is a hard book to review, being a collection of disparate works, but overall, it’s just really really good. Somehow I had never heard of Eudora Welty before, even though she is apparently “one of the South’s greatest writers. For the most part, her stories are set in fictionalized versions of the rural Mississippi communities in which she was born and raised. Her love for this place – even with its racism and the peculiar small-town sensibilities and the irrational people and always the oppressive heat – is obvious. Her characters are at times bizarre and at times boring, but always somehow believable.
Some stories I liked better than others, of course. “Why I Live at the PO” was fantastic. “Where is the Voice Coming From?” – written the day that Medgar Evers was killed – is fantastic. Some short stories are essentially serials; “The Golden Apples” was my favorite of these. Some of the stories were just plain work to get through, and some of her descriptions were so abstract that either I was not smart enough to parse them or she is just too strange sometimes. I would love to re-read a few of these, but I’m not sure I have the energy to make it through the whole book again. (But if I did summon the energy, I think I would discover something new with each reading, and not regret it.)