by Eudora Welty · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679728832
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«The Optimist's Daughter» is the literary novel by Eudora Welty, published by Vintage in paperback (192 pages, in English).
The story follows Laurel McKelva Hand, who travels to New Orleans when her father falls ill and, after his death and the funeral, accompanies her young stepmother to the Mississippi town where she grew up. In the family home, Laurel confronts her memories and reconstructs her parents' past to understand herself.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as stated on the cover. Part of the Vintage International collection.
For readers of literary fiction and narratives set in the American South.
Eudora Alice Welty was an American short-story writer, novelist, and photographer who wrote about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi, has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.
