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Ama insanin sevdiklerinden uzun yasamasinin sebep oldugu sucluluk hissini tasimasi gerektigine de inaniyordu. Onlardan uzun yasamak onlara haksizlik etmek gibiydi. Ölüm fantezileri, yasam fantezilerinden tuhaf gelmiyordu ona. Hayatta kalmaksa belki de aralarindaki en tuhaf fanteziydi. Yargic McKelva, Mount Salus adli Mississippi kasabasinin en muteber ve güvenilir isimlerinden biridir. Karisinin ölümünden on yil sonra Wanda Fay adli ucari bir ...

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Featuring a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author and one of the most revered figures in American letters is "profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write" (Los Angeles Times).Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her surroundings contributed to t...

Featuring a new introduction, this updated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author and one of the most revered figures in American letters is "profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write" (Los Angeles Times).Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her surroundings contributed to t...

With a new introduction from Anne Tyler. From one our most treasured American writers, Delta Wedding is a vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative, Laura McRaven, and the family's preparations for her cousin Dabney's wedding.

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Quando suo padre, il giudice McKelva, le comunica di dover subire un'operazione a un occhio, Laurel non esita a lasciare la sua casa di Chicago e andare a New Orleans per prendersene cura, anche se dovrà avere a che fare con la nuova moglie del giudice, Fay: una donna più giovane di lei, con un carattere duro e scostante, che secondo molti si è sposata solo per interesse. L'intervento sembra riuscito, ma il giudice - l'ottimista del titolo - s...

Immer wieder sind es die kleinen Leute der Südstaaten, die Ausgestoßenen und Außenseiter, für die sich Welty interessiert: der schwarze Junge, der auf dem Jahrmarkt einem sensationshungrigen Publikum als Indianermädchen vorgeführt wird, das taubstumme Paar, das seit Jahrzehnten wartet und vergessen hat, worauf, die Witwe, die sich zurückgezogen hat und nur noch hinter den Hecken und Bäumen ihres Gartens - einem Vorhang aus Grün - lebt. Welty g...

Eudora Welty's Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writer's photographs. Photographs is a deeply felt documentation of 1930s Mississippi taken by a keenly observant photographer who showed the human side of her subjects.

With a new Introduction from bestselling author Patchett, this National Book Award-winning collection--one of the great works of 20th-century American literature--contains 41 stories by a a contemporary master of short fiction.on.

Quando il bandito James Murrell e il predicatore Lorenzo Dow finiscono per incontrarsi dopo una cavalcata furiosa sulla Pista di Natchez si apre al lettore un momento simbolico. Davanti a loro appare un terzo uomo, l'ornitologo Audubon, tutto assorto nei suoi disegni e nella contemplazione della natura, ed è come se il bene e il male arrivassero improvvisamente a una resa dei conti. Quale verità attende loro, e noi che li osserviamo col fiato ...

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Offers a celebration of the short works of one of America's most beloved writers. To mark the centennial of Eudora Welty's birth, Pearl Amelia McHaney has collected more than sixty pieces by Welty that are largely unknown and have not been reprinted since their first appearances in magazines, journals, newsletters, and newspapers.

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.

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