Eudora Welty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. "The Optimist's Daughter" is 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. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 101
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the USA by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
1998
Author
Series
Library of America volume 102
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
1998
Author
Series
Modern library of the world's best books volume 290
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1943