A Curtain of Green: And Other StoriesHMH, 1991 M11 7 - 320 páginas The debut short fiction collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning Southern author: “A fine writer and a distinguished book” (The New Yorker). When A Curtain of Green was published, it immediately established an unknown young writer from Mississippi as a uniquely original literary voice and a great American author. In her now-famous introduction to the collection, Katherine Anne Porter wrote that “there is even in the smallest story a sense of power in reserve which makes me believe firmly that, splendid beginning that it is, it is only a beginning.” In this collection are many of the stories that have become acknowledged masterpieces: the hilarious over-the-top family drama that drives a small-town resentful postmistress to explain “Why I Live at the P.O.”; the deeply satisfying thwarting of a trio of busybodies by a “feeble-minded” young woman in “Lily Daw and the Three Ladies”; the poignant pilgrimage of elderly Phoenix Jackson in “A Worn Path”; and the boldly experimental and jubilantly playful literary improvisation of “Powerhouse,” inspired by a performance Eudora Welty saw by Fats Waller. Porter added that “[Welty] has simply an eye and an ear sharp, shrewd, and true as a tuning fork.” Like the jazz tunes Powerhouse bangs out on the piano, Welty’s stories remain as fresh, alive, and unpredictable today as when they first appeared. “Miss Welty’s stories are deceptively simple. They are concerned with ordinary people, but what happens to them and the manner of the telling are far from ordinary.”—The New Yorker |
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... Aimee Slocum, with her hand still full of mail, ran out in front and handed it straight to Mrs. Watts, and they all three read it together. Mrs. Watts held it taut between her pink hands, and Mrs. Carson underscored each line slowly ...
... Aimee Slocum, with her hand still full of mail, ran out in front and handed it straight to Mrs. Watts, and they all three read it together. Mrs. Watts held it taut between her pink hands, and Mrs. Carson underscored each line slowly ...
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And Other Stories Eudora Welty. meI" called Aimee Slocum, trotting back to finish putting up the mail. "Do you suppose they'll look after her down there?" Mrs. Canon began to carry on a conversation with a group of Baptist ladies waiting ...
And Other Stories Eudora Welty. meI" called Aimee Slocum, trotting back to finish putting up the mail. "Do you suppose they'll look after her down there?" Mrs. Canon began to carry on a conversation with a group of Baptist ladies waiting ...
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... Aimee Slocum, run ning out with white powder all over her face. "Mail's up. I don't know how good it's up." "Well, of course, I do hope it's for the best," said several of the other ladies. They did not go at once to take their mail out ...
... Aimee Slocum, run ning out with white powder all over her face. "Mail's up. I don't know how good it's up." "Well, of course, I do hope it's for the best," said several of the other ladies. They did not go at once to take their mail out ...
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... Aimee Slocum are paying her way out of our own pockets. Besides, the boys of Victory are on their honor. Lily's not going to get married, that's just an idea she's got in her head." "More power to you, ladies," said Ed Newton, spanking ...
... Aimee Slocum are paying her way out of our own pockets. Besides, the boys of Victory are on their honor. Lily's not going to get married, that's just an idea she's got in her head." "More power to you, ladies," said Ed Newton, spanking ...
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... Aimee Slocum. "Well, I declare," said Estelle; she never understood anything. Loralee Adkins came riding by in her WillysKnight, tooting the horn to find out what they were talking about. Aimee threw up her hands and ran out into the ...
... Aimee Slocum. "Well, I declare," said Estelle; she never understood anything. Loralee Adkins came riding by in her WillysKnight, tooting the horn to find out what they were talking about. Aimee threw up her hands and ran out into the ...
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THE KEY | |
KEELA THE OUTCAST INDIAN MAIDEN | |
WHY I LIVE AT THE PO | |
THE WHISTLE | |
THE HITCHHIKERS | |
CLYTIE | |
OLD MR MARBLEHALL | |
FLOWERS FOR MARJORIE | |
A CURTAIN OF GREEN | |
A VISIT OF CHARITY | |
DEATH OF A TRAVELING SALESMAN | |
POWERHOUSE | |
A WORN PATH | |
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