The Optimists Daughter, Eudora Welty
The Optimists Daughter, Eudora Welty
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The Optimist's Daughter
Pulitzer Prize Winner

Author: Eudora Welty

Narrator: Eudora Welty

Abridged: 3 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/19/2011

Synopsis

This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Along in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.

About The Author

One of America's most admired authors, Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, which is still her home. She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. She is the author of, among many other books, One Writer's Beginnings, The Robber Bridegroom, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, and The Optimist's Daughter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on September 26, 2018

"Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart that can empty but fill again, in the patterns restored by dreams." Eudora Welty Eudora Welty won the Pulitzer Prize for this book in 1973. It was written much later than the bulk of the rest o......more

Goodreads review by Lawyer on August 03, 2012

The Optimist's Daughter: Eudora Welty's Celebration of Life and Memory "But the guilt of outliving those you love is justly to be borne, she thought. Outliving is something we do to them. The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Surviving is perhaps the strangest f......more

Goodreads review by Paul on December 14, 2022

First half of this was quite fun, with the 71 year old revered retired Judge’s 42 year old daughter Laurel and his also-around-42-year old new wife Fay building up to a colossal knock-down dragout donnybrook as they tend the old fart who has been put into the hospital with a torn retina. After the o......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on October 05, 2021

Laurel Hand travels from her home in Chicago to New Orleans when her father, Judge McKelva has an an eye operation. The judge's second (and much younger) wife, Fay also accompanies her husband from their home in Mississippi. The judge languishes after the surgery, becomes withdrawn and silent, and e......more

Awards

  • Pulitzer Prize
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