Delta Wedding (Virago modern classics)

Delta Wedding (Virago modern classics)

by EudoraWelty (Author)

Synopsis

On the tenth of September 1923 little motherless Laura McRaven travels from Jackson, Mississippi, on a train named the Yellow Dog. She is returning to Shellmound, the family plantation at the heart of the delta. There she is swept into the arms of the Fairchilds, her huge collection of entrancing relatives. They have gathered for the marriage of seventeen-year-old Dabney - the prettiest of the Fairchild girls - to a man from the mountains: the overseer Troy Flavin. The ordinary events in the life of this clannish, proud, loving and quarrelling family are wonderfully portrayed as Dabney's great day draws nearer...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Published: 27 May 1982

ISBN 10: 0860682897
ISBN 13: 9780860682899
Book Overview: A classic novel of marriage and mayhem from one of America's most acclaimed writers.

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[she] give[s] the people of her South an inner richness ... It is a great and generous achievement SUNDAY TIMES
Author Bio
Eudora Welty was born in 1908 in Jackson, Mississippi, which is still her home. One of America's most distinguished writers, she has published five novels and as many volumes of short stories. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.