Welty, Eudora Occasions: Selected Writings ISBN 13: 9781604732641

Occasions: Selected Writings - Hardcover

9781604732641: Occasions: Selected Writings
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
Occasions is a celebration of the short works of one of America's most beloved writers. To mark the centennial of Eudora Welty's birth, Pearl Amelia McHaney has collected more than sixty pieces by Welty that are largely unknown and have not been reprinted since their first appearances in magazines, journals, newsletters, and newspapers.

The gathering includes one of Welty's earliest stories, Acrobats in the Park; a self-analysis of her art printed in the Twenty Photographs portfolio; a recipe for Aunt Beck's Chicken Pie served up in the novel Losing Battles; and a parody of Edmund Wilson's scurrilousNew Yorker review of one of William Faulkner's late novels. These occasional essays, tributes, stories, and comments will delight readers and reveal more of the genius of a favorite author deeply engaged with her people and their customs.

In these pieces Welty put pen to paper for just causes: electing honorable officials, selling war bonds, promoting reading and the arts. Her sophistication and insight resonate in tributes to Isak Dinesen, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy as well as in reviews of sculpture, painting, dance, and photography, and in her candid remarks about her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Optimist's Daughter. Her sly humor emerges in Women!! Make Turban in Own Home! a delightful parody of projects suggested in Popular Mechanics. Written between the 1930s and the 1990s, these fictions, essays, commemorations, reviews, and salutes reveal the sparkling imagination of a celebrated writer who continues her hold on a wide audience through these newfound pleasures.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Book Description:
A treasury of hard-to-find stories, essays, tributes, and humor from a literary master
About the Author:
Eudora Welty is the author of many novels and story collections, including Losing Battles, The Ponder Heart, The Robber Bridegroom, The Golden Apples, and A Curtain of Green and Other Stories.

Pearl Amelia McHaney is associate professor of English at Georgia State University and editor of several books on Eudora Welty, including Eudora Welty: Contemporary Reviews, Eudora Welty: Writers Reflections upon First Reading Welty, and A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews by Eudora Welty, available from University Press of Mississippi.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781496821072: Occasions: Selected Writings

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9781496821072
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2018
Softcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Welty, Eudora
ISBN 10: 1604732644 ISBN 13: 9781604732641
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Wizard Books
(Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard1604732644

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 52.35
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 3.50
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Welty, Eudora
ISBN 10: 1604732644 ISBN 13: 9781604732641
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldBooks
(Austin, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think1604732644

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 60.90
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.25
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Welty, Eudora
ISBN 10: 1604732644 ISBN 13: 9781604732641
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldenWavesOfBooks
(Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_1604732644

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 61.76
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.00
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Welty, Eudora
ISBN 10: 1604732644 ISBN 13: 9781604732641
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
The Book Spot
(Sioux Falls, SD, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # Abebooks497098

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 74.00
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Welty, Eudora
Published by UP of Mississippi (2009)
ISBN 10: 1604732644 ISBN 13: 9781604732641
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Asano Bookshop
(Nagoya, AICHI, Japan)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 84915

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 70.00
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 37.00
From Japan to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds