Golden Apples - Hardcover

Welty, Eudora

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151360898 ISBN 13: 9780151360895

Publisher: Harcourt, 1949

Synopsis

Welty, Eudora. The Golden Apples. First Edition. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. 14 cm x 21 cm. 244 pages. Original hardcover in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Some browning of page-edges. Inscription by preowner. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding. Includes the following: Shower of Gold / June Recital / Sir Rabbit / Moon Lake / The Whole World Knows / Music from Spain / The Wanderers. First published in 1949, THE GOLDEN APPLES is an acutely observed, richly atmospheric portrayal of small town life in Morgana, Mississippi. There's Snowdie, who has to bring up her twin boys alone after her husband, King Maclain, disappears one day, discarding his hat on the banks of the Big Black. There's Loch Morrison, convalescing with malaria, who watches from his bedroom window as wayward Virgie Rainey meets a sailor in the vacant house opposite. Meanwhile, Miss Eckhart the piano teacher, grieving the loss of her most promising pupil, tries her hand at arson. Eudora Welty has a fine ear for dialogue and describes each of the characters in incisive, haunting prose. '...in the South,' she says, 'everybody stays busy talking all the time - they're not sorry for you to overhear their tales'. Welty deftly picks up their stories to create an unflinching potrait of everyday life in the American South and offers a deeply moving look at human nature. (Amazon)

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Review:

A great and generous achievement (Jonathan Raban)

I doubt that a better book about 'the South' - one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life and its special tone and pattern - has ever been written (New Yorker)

A hauntingly beautiful work...This excellent new edition is prefaced with an essay by Paul Binding which sheds light on the mythic structures that underpin the tales (The Independent, Paperbacks of the Year)

From the Back Cover:

Here is Eudora Welty's classic portrait of a Mississippi town-where, as one inhabitant says, "time goes like a dream no matter how hard you run." In Morgana, the young think of other places and the old know every name on every stone in the cemetery at the town's edge. Young and old, black and white, married and spinster, restless or settled, the voices that make up this collection of interrelated stories prove that Welty, as Katherine Anne Porter once wrote, had "an ear sharp, shrewd, and true as a tuning fork." Like James Joyce's Dubliners and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, The Golden Apples, though it gives readers a particular time and place, is both timeless and universal.
"I doubt that a better book about 'the South'--one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life, and its special tone and pattern--has ever been written."-Original review, September 3, 1949, The New Yorker
"A work of art . . . the original creation of an invaluable artist."-The New York Times Book Review

Eudora Welty (1909-2001) was born in Jackson, Mississippi. She worked as a photographer during the Depression and published her first book, a collection of short stories, in 1941. In addition to short fiction, Welty wrote novels, novellas, essays, and reviews, and was the winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. By the time of her death in 2001, Welty had established herself as one of the most important and beloved American writers of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1949
• ISBN 10: 0151360898
• ISBN 13: 9780151360895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244