Delta Wedding
of Eudora Welty
Description
Set on the Mississippi Delta in 1923, this story captures the mind and manners of the Fairchilds, a large aristocratic family, self-contained and elusive as the wind. The vagaries of the Fairchilds are keenly observed, and sometimes harshly judged, by nine-year-old Laura McRaven, a Fairchild cousin who takes The Yellow Dog train to the Delta for Dabney Fairchild's wedding. An only child whose mother has just died, Laura is resentful of her boisterous, careless cousins, and desperate for their acceptance. As the hour moves closer and closer to wedding day, Laura arrives at a more subtle understanding of both the Fairchilds and herself. Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty is one of the South's finest novelists. She won a Pulitzer in 1972 for The Optimist's Daughter. Delta Wedding is her best known work.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336 pages
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication Date June 28th 1991
- First Publication 11/06/46
- Language English
- ISBN 9780151247745
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Mississippi (United States)']
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