Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) (1973)
This is the excruciating story of a southern girl who returns home on
the death of her fairly aged father & proves completely unable to cope
with it. She battles through 200 pages of hysteria & confrontations
with her trophy wife step-mother, until she comes to terms with her past
& her father's passing.
I waited and waited for something to happen or some deep thoughts to
be unfurled, but waited for naught.
(Reviewed:)
Grade: (D)
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I have to agree with the former comment. It seems, based on your review, that you've not read the same book. I'm not sure where you find the hysteria in Laurel. And I found paragraph after paragraph which showed the depth of the book--her unveiling of memory and everything it encompasses. Welty, like so many other Southern writers, is quiet in her exploration of truth and understanding. She just requires good and close readers.
- Amanda
- May-01-2005, 14:27
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It's too bad that you felt you waited for naught. Have many trains roared by you unseen, unheard?
- Beth
- Jul-19-2004, 12:09
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