The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty: A National Book Award Winner - Softcover

Welty, Eudora

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1328625648 ISBN 13: 9781328625649

Publisher: Mariner Books Classics, 2019

Synopsis

With a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, the National Book Award-winning story collection that is one of the great works of twentieth-century American literature

Eudora Welty wrote novels, novellas, and reviews over the course of her long career, but the heart and soul of her literary vision lay with the short story, and her National Book Award-winning Collected Stories, written when it was first published, confirmed her as a master of short fiction. With a new introduction by best-selling author Ann Patchett, the forty-one pieces collected in this new edition, written over a period of three decades, showcase Welty's incredible dexterity as a writer. Her style seamlessly shifts from the comic to the tragic, from realistic portraits to surrealistic ones, as she deftly moves between folklore and myth, race and history, family and farce, and the Mississippi landscape she knew so well, her wry wit and keen sense of observation always present on the page.

About this title

About the Author:

EUDORA WELTY (1909-2001) was born in Jackson, Mississippi. 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.

ANN PATCHETT is the author of seven novels, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, The Magician's Assistant, Bel Canto, Run, State of Wonder, and Commonwealth, and three works of nonfiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1328625648
• ISBN 13: 9781328625649
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592