Thirteen Stories Eudora Welty is a young adult book that brings together coming-of-age experiences and personal discovery. It may appeal to readers looking for a coming-of-age experiences and personal discovery reading experience.
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"I've read her Thirteen Stories many times, and I'm always awed by how much comedy, pathos, satire and lyricism she manages to squeeze into her stories." —Sue Monk Kidd
A strong sense of place—in this case Mississippi—along with often larger-than-life characterizations of ordinary folk with all their glorious eccentricities and foibles, and above all a completely distinctive voice, come together in Eudora Welty's fiction to offer us a world that is sometimes sad, sometimes comic, often petty, and always compassionate.
Here is a baker's dozen of Welty's very best, including: "The Wide Net," in which a pregnant wife threatens to drown herself, despite fear of the water, and a communal dragging of the river turns into a celebratory fish-fry; "Petrified Man," revealing the savagery of small-town gossip; "Powerhouse," Welty's prose answer to jazz improvisation and the emotional heart of the blues; and "Why I Live at the P.O.",...
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