Edna's Uncle Daniel Ponder is quite a character in the townof Clay, Mississippi: he dresses fit to kill and is as goodas gold. But he's rich as Croesus, and a great deal too generous. Needing someone to give things to, he marries 17-year-old Bonnie Dee from a poor backwoods family.
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Eudora Welty is the author of many novels and story collections, including "The Optimist's Daughter" (Pulitzer Prize), "Losing Battles", "The Ponder Heart", "The Robber Bridegroom", "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories", as well as three collections of her photographic work (all from the University Press of Mississippi)-"Photographs", "Country Churchyards", and "One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression".
Comic novella by Eudora Welty, published in 1954. Cast as a monologue, it is rich with colloquial speech and descriptive imagery. The narrator of the story is Miss Edna Earle Ponder, one of the last living members of a once-prominent family, who manages the Beulah Hotel in Clay, Miss. She tells a traveling salesman the history of her family and fellow townsfolk. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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