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Title | : | Why I Live at the P.O. and Other Stories |
Author | : | Eudora Welty |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Penguin 60s |
Pages | : | Pages: 90 pages |
Published | : | 1995 by Penguin Books (first published 1941) |
Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Classics. American. Southern |
Eudora Welty
Paperback | Pages: 90 pages Rating: 4.24 | 921 Users | 52 Reviews
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Eudora Welty is one of America's most distinguished writers. Her reputation rests largely on her skill and delicacy in portraying a wide range of characters, rich and poor, black and white. Her style is marked by her perception of the Southern character, her ear for colloquial speech and her ability to endow her portraits of small-town life with a universal significance. Included are four stories that capture the heart of the American South.
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ISBN: | 0146000161 (ISBN13: 9780146000164) |
Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.24 From 921 Users | 52 ReviewsJudgment Appertaining To Books Why I Live at the P.O. and Other Stories
Some funny moments, but maybe I just don't get it being too far removed from the time period and the South. But her down home folksiness becomes grating.WHY I LIVE AT THE POST OFFICE is a must read short story
Four tales of outback Mississippi, from 1941-63. One very good, the others just kinda strange. Why I Live At The P.O. [1941] - 4.67Vague, silly, like an episode of Eastenders in a strange foreign language. Death Of A Traveling Salesman [1941] - 7.27'There would be a warm spring day... Come and stand in my heart, whoever you are, and a whole river would cover your feet and rise higher and take your knees in whirlpools, and draw you down to itself, your whole body, your heart too.' (p.40)A strange

my favorite line from this book I stole from my friend Alan Huffman. "Why you just made that up sitting there eating breast of chicken"
Repeating myself... I love Eudora Welty's writing, especially her humor. I first heard this story on tape, recorded by the author herself. I can't remember when I laughed so hysterically. (The only other time that comes even close was when listening to a recording of David Sedaris reading his account of a Christmas tale, titled "Six to Eight Black Men"...) Reading the written short story "Why I Live at the P.O." was just as entertaining, and even allowed me to pick up little details I had missed
This story has sentimental value for me. First, because I read it out loud to my college boyfriend one summer when he was suffering a painful case of dysentery. (You probably thought dysentery ended with the Civil War. Nope.) Anyway, I had to stop reading it because it made him laugh so much. Still, I recommend it, especially out loud.Second sentimental reason is that when I had kids, my father wanted to be called something besides "Grandpa," and I remembered one of the characters in this story
Four short stories published as a Penguin 60s book.Seldom do I find myself reading a story I find no connection with - of course normally I don't attempt read books that look like they are heading that way - but this short book had four of them!Probably I am too far removed from the time and the place, and I willingly admit that I know little about the politics and race relations of the time in order to appreciate this.For me the first (title) story was a nothing that went nowhere. A mundane
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