Selected Stories of Eudora Welty: A Curtain of Green and Other Stories (Modern Library)

Selected Stories of Eudora Welty: A Curtain of Green and Other Stories (Modern Library) by Welty, Eudora. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780679600022.

Eudora Weltys subjects are the people who live in southern towns like Jackson, Mississippi, which has been her home for all of her long life. Ive stayed in one place, she says, and its become the source of the information that stirs my imagination. Her distinctive voice and wry observations are rooted in the southern conversational tradition. The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque. Linking them all is Weltys remarkable ear for the language and point of view of the South. Shes a lot smarter than her cousins in Beula, someone remarks about a reputed suicide in one story. Especially Edna Earle, that never did get to be what youd call a heavy thinker. Edna Earle could sit and ponder all day on how the little tail of the c got through the I in a Coca-Cola sign." The stories in this volume, from the first two collections she published, range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque.