{"product_id":"eudora-welty-complete-novels-loa-101-hardcover-by-eudora-welty","title":"Eudora Welty: Complete Novels (LOA #101) Hardcover by Eudora Welty","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eLibrary of America\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(1998-08-01)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e1012\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781883011543\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e635.04\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.13 x 5.26 x 1.25\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eOne of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, Eudora Welty’s novels and stories blend the storytelling tradition of the South with a modernist sensibility attuned to the mysteries and ambiguities of experience. In this Library of America volume and its companion, Welty explores the complex abundance of southern, and particularly Southern women’s, lives with an artistry that Salman Rushdie has called “impossible to overpraise.” In a career spanning five decades, she chronicled her own Mississippi with a depth and intensity matched only by William Faulkner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eComplete Novels\u003c\/i\u003e gathers all of Welty’s longer fiction in one volume for the first time. In \u003ci\u003eThe Robber Bridegroom\u003c\/i\u003e (1942), based on a Grimm fairy tale, legendary figures from Mississippi’s past, such as the keel-boat captain Mike Fink and the savage outlaws the Harp Brothers, mingle with Welty’s own imaginings in a free-ranging and boisterous fantasy set along the Natchez Trace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe richly textured \u003ci\u003eDelta Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e (1946), set against a backdrop of rural Mississippi in the 1920s, vividly portrays the intricacies of family relationships in its account of the sprawling Fairchild clan—with their “family trait of quick, upturning smiles, instant comprehension of the smallest eddy of life in the current of the day, which would surely be entered in a kind of reckless pleasure”—and their Delta plantation Shellmound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdna Earle Ponder’s unrestrained and delightfully absurd monologue, superb in its capturing of the rhythms of country speech, shows Welty’s humor at its idiomatic best in \u003ci\u003eThe Ponder Heart\u003c\/i\u003e (1954), a flight of invention culminating in a murder trial that becomes an occasion for exuberant comedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe monumental \u003ci\u003eLosing Battles\u003c\/i\u003e (1970), composed over fifteen years, brings Welty’s imaginative gifts to the largest canvass of her career, rendering a Depression-era family reunion with mythic scope and ebullient comic vigor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume concludes with \u003ci\u003eThe Optimist’s Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e (1972), a taut and moving story of a woman rediscovering the world of her childhood as she comes to terms with her father’s death. Often considered her masterpiece, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1972.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA \u003c\/b\u003eis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEudora Welty\u003c\/b\u003e (1909-2001) was the author of novels, short stories, memoirs, and essays, including such celebrated works as \u003ci\u003eThe Optimist's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973. In 1998 she became the first living writer to have her works published in the Library of America series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Ford\u003c\/b\u003e is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of the Bascombe novels and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling \u003ci\u003eCanada\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLet Me Be Frank With You\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Kreyling\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at Vanderbilt University and the author of \u003ci\u003eInventing Southern Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Eudora Welty\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45395530514593,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781883011543","price":54.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781883011543.jpg?v=1763585172","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/eudora-welty-complete-novels-loa-101-hardcover-by-eudora-welty","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}