Bibliograph

The optimist's daughter, Eudora Welty

Type

Label

The optimist's daughter, Eudora Welty

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

880, Lexile

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The optimist's daughter

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

712783396

Responsibility statement

Eudora Welty

Series statement

Virago modern classics

Summary

Laurel Hand, long absent from the South, comes from Chicago to New Orleans, where her father dies after surgery. With Fay, the stupid new young wife of her father, Laurel returns to her former Mississippi home and stays a few days after the funeral for reunions with old friends. In a night alone in the house she grew up in, she confronts elements of the past and comes to a better understanding of it and of herself and her parents

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