The Resource The optimist's daughter, Eudora Welty
The optimist's daughter, Eudora Welty
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The item The optimist's daughter, Eudora Welty represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- Laurel Hand, long absent from the South, comes from Chicago to New Orleans, where her father dies after surgery. With Fay, the stupid new young wife of her father, Laurel returns to her former Mississippi home and stays a few days after the funeral for reunions with old friends. In a night alone in the house she grew up in, she confronts elements of the past and comes to a better understanding of it and of herself and her parents
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679728832
- Label
- The optimist's daughter
- Title
- The optimist's daughter
- Statement of responsibility
- Eudora Welty
- Title variation
- optimists daughter
- Subject
-
- trueDomestic fiction
- Women -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Reunions -- Fiction
- trueFathers -- Death
- trueWomen -- Mississippi
- trueSecond wives
- trueYoung women -- Mississippi
- Fathers -- Death -- Fiction
- trueStepmothers
- truePsychological fiction
- trueReminiscing in old age
- trueSouthern Gothic
- trueModern classics
- trueFamilies -- Mississippi
- trueMississippi
- Reminiscing -- Fiction
- trueSouthern fiction
- trueReunions
- trueFunerals
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction
- trueMiddle-aged women -- Southern States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Laurel Hand, long absent from the South, comes from Chicago to New Orleans, where her father dies after surgery. With Fay, the stupid new young wife of her father, Laurel returns to her former Mississippi home and stays a few days after the funeral for reunions with old friends. In a night alone in the house she grew up in, she confronts elements of the past and comes to a better understanding of it and of herself and her parents
- Summary
- Laurel Hand is forced to face her Southern past when she returns to Mississippi for her father's funeral
- Award
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1973.
- Awards note
- Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1973.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 061631
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1909-2001
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Welty, Eudora
- Dewey number
- 813.52
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Vintage international
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- Fathers
- Reminiscing
- Reunions
- Mississippi
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The optimist's daughter, Eudora Welty
- Link
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000011078458
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679728832
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)22282924
- Label
- The optimist's daughter, Eudora Welty
- Link
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000011078458
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679728832
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)22282924
Subject
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueFamilies -- Mississippi
- trueFathers -- Death
- Fathers -- Death -- Fiction
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction
- trueFunerals
- trueMiddle-aged women -- Southern States
- trueMississippi
- Mississippi -- Fiction
- trueModern classics
- truePsychological fiction
- Reminiscing -- Fiction
- trueReminiscing in old age
- trueReunions
- Reunions -- Fiction
- trueSecond wives
- trueSouthern Gothic
- trueSouthern fiction
- trueStepmothers
- trueWomen -- Mississippi
- Women -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- trueYoung women -- Mississippi
Genre
- trueDomestic fiction
- Fiction
- trueModern classics
- truePsychological fiction
- trueSouthern Gothic
- trueSouthern fiction
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