The Ponder Heart

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
1967

ISBN-13: 9780547543925

<DIV><B>&ldquo;</B><B>A wonderful tragicomedy&rdquo; of a Mississippi</B><B> family, a vast inheritance, and an impulsive heir, by the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of <I>Delta Wedding </I>(<I>The New York Times</I>). </B><BR /><BR /> Daniel Ponder is the amiable heir to the wealthiest family in Clay County, Mississippi. To friends and strangers, he&rsquo;s also the most generous, having given away heirlooms, a watch, and so far, at least one family business. His niece, Edna Earle, has a solution to save the Ponder fortune from Daniel&rsquo;s mortifying philanthropy: As much as she loves Daniel, she&rsquo;s decided to have him institutionalized.<BR /><BR /> Foolproof as the plan may seem, it comes with a kink&mdash;one that sets in motion a runaway scheme of mistaken identity, a hapless local widow, a reckless wedding, a dim-witted teenage bride, and a twist of dumb luck that lands this once-respectable Southern family in court to brave an embarrassing trial for murder. It&rsquo;s become the talk of Clay County. And the loose-tongued Edna Earle will tell you all about it.<BR /><BR /> &ldquo;The most revered figure in contemporary American letters,&rdquo; said the <I>New York Times </I>of Eudora Welty, which also hailed <I>The Ponder Heart</I>&mdash;a winner of the William Dean Howells Medal which was adapted into both a Broadway play and a PBS <I>Masterpiece</I> series&mdash;as &ldquo;Miss Welty at her comic, compassionate best.&rdquo;&#160;<BR /> &#160;</DIV>