The Optimist's Daughter
by Eudora Welty
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 067972883X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679728832
- Seller
-
Glebe, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
1990
Vintage International,
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1973
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Lightest overall wear,
In excellent condition
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A microcosmic play-like setting and premise of the young woman returning to take care of her dying father, where symbolisms abound
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180 pages, 204mm x 132mm x 14mm
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100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW
Synopsis
Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mis-sissippi, in 1909. She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Her short stories appeared in The Southern Review, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker, and other magazines. She lectured at a number of colleges, held the William Allan Neilson professorship at Smith and the Lucy Donnelly Fellowship at Bryn Mawr, and was a lecturer at the Conference of American Studies at Cambridge University. She worked under grants from the Rockefeller and Merrill foundations and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and held a Guggenheim Fellow-ship. She was given honorary degrees from Smith, the University of Wisconsin, Western College for Women, Denison University, the University of the South at Sewanee, and Millsaps College in Jackson. She also received the M. Carey Thomas Award from Bryn Mawr, the Brandeis Medal of Achievement, and the Hollins Medal; her novel The Ponder Heart was awarded the Howells Medal for Fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Eudora Welty died in 2001. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Library Kit (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TLK448
- Title
- The Optimist's Daughter
- Author
- Eudora Welty
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 067972883X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679728832
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1990-08-11
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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100% of book sales goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW ($2,090.40 donated as of 29th April, 2024)
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