A Curtain of Green

Disponibilité:
Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.

Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
1991

ISBN-13: 9780547538501

<DIV><B>The debut short fiction collection from the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning Southern author: &ldquo;A fine writer and a distinguished book&rdquo; </B>(<B><I>The New Yorker</I>).</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> When <I>A Curtain of Green</I> 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 &ldquo;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.&rdquo;<BR /> &#160;<BR /> 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 &ldquo;Why I Live at the P.O.&rdquo;; the deeply satisfying thwarting of a trio of busybodies by a &ldquo;feeble-minded&rdquo; young woman in &ldquo;Lily Daw and the Three Ladies&rdquo;; the poignant pilgrimage of elderly Phoenix Jackson in &ldquo;A Worn Path&rdquo;; and the boldly experimental and jubilantly playful literary improvisation of &ldquo;Powerhouse,&rdquo; inspired by a performance Eudora Welty saw by Fats Waller.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Porter added that &ldquo;[Welty] has simply an eye and an ear sharp, shrewd, and true as a tuning fork.&rdquo; Like the jazz tunes Powerhouse bangs out on the piano, Welty&rsquo;s stories remain as fresh, alive, and unpredictable today as when they first appeared.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;Miss Welty&rsquo;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.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>The New Yorker</I></DIV>