The optimist's daughter / Eudora Welty.
Record details
- ISBN: 067972883X (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0394480171
- ISBN: 9780394480176
- ISBN: 067972883X
- ISBN: 9780679728832
- ISBN: 9780965374712
- ISBN: 0965374718
- Physical Description: 180 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, 1972.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. "The Optimist's Daughter" is 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. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.6 6 10842. |
Awards Note: | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1973. |
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Subject: | Women > Mississippi > Fiction. Funeral rites and ceremonies > Fiction. Fathers > Death > Fiction. Mississippi > Fiction. Reminiscing > Fiction. Reunions > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Autographs (Provenance) |
Available copies
- 31 of 34 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 34 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rowayton Library | F WEL (Text) | 33625000229687 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |