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First published in 1945, Delta Wedding established Welty as one of the most poetic and memorable writers of the Southern Renascence. Set in 1923 in the Mississippi Delta town of Fairchilds, the wedding in question is that of Dabney Fairchilds, daughter of the most prominent plantation family in the region, and Troy Flavin, the family's overseer. How the family comes to terms with the social diminishment it must absorb by Dabney's willful choice is only one subject of Welty's subtle story. Others are the absorption of Laura McRavin, an orphaned cousin, into the Fairchilds clan and the reconciliation of the favorite son, George, with his socially inferior wife, Robbie. Chock full of eccentric aunts, children with odd names like Bluett and Little Battle, and the hovering threat of disaster, this complex and beautiful tale contains many themes that were the source material for later Southern writers such as Tennessee Williams and Flannery O'Connor. Narrator Sally Darling has the perfectly modulated, softly dramatic Southern accent to convey the mood of post-Reconstruction Mississippi, where a powerful family with its plantation traditions cannot resist the slow erosion of democracy. Recommended for all collections.
Sharon Cumberland, Seattle Univ.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Sharon Cumberland, Seattle Univ.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Young Laura spends an exciting week with her cousins, the Fairchilds, at their estate on the Mississippi Delta in the early 1920s.
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Delta Wedding (HBJ Modern Classic) (Gebundene Ausgabe)
I do have to admit that Eudora Welty is one of the best writer's as far as capturing the complexities of human emotions and interactions. The way she wrote made me feel sympathy for the characters at times, and a sense that I know what they are going through at others. She has brought them to life so beautifully that there is probably a character to relate to anybody who picks up the book.(Which is very possible due to a LONG list of characters.) As I read the book I could see biogrpahical bits and pieces of her own memories which she remembered so descriptively. The description of the Delta causes you to feel so familiar with it that you may as well just live there. I can just picture the open, treeless fields and the little rivers. She also kept a hopeful outlook for relationships throughout the book, as I read would it would be from many critics, but I could not possibly believe when I found out that Robbie left George. Also, her common themes about love being freedom from isolation, social prejudice, and convention were all displayed in the book, whether vaguely or bright and apparent. The book was hard to read at times due to the fact that some of the chapters were so long. It was hard for me to sit down and read a whole chapter at a time, but that was the only drawback. Overall, the book was well-written and anybody who can relate to the irony of family get-togethers will enjoy reading this book.
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One of the most beautifully constructed novels I've read!,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Delta Wedding: A Novel (Harvest/HBJ Book) (Taschenbuch)
I had to read this for a Lit of the American South class I'm taking for my M.A. I read it in two days with a study guide close at hand as well as several background articles on Welty. I'm grateful for the additional materials, but even without them I know I would have found much to praise in this book.When I first started to read, my professor suggested compiling a list of characters and their relationships in order to assist in keeping everyone straight. This was excellent advice and allowed me to read without getting too bogged down in character names and trying to figure out who was allied with whom, etc etc. The novel is ostensibly a portrait of one Southern family. On a broader perspective, one can view it as a deconstruction of the American South with its age-old social structures and isolationism. But it can also be taken on a much more universal level. Anyone who has ever felt like an outsider in any milieu will relate to Ellen Fairchild, Laura McEvern, and Robbie Reid. Families across the world aren't so different. Robbie's statement in the novel's climax: "I didn't marry into them, I married George!" is, I thought, particularly insightful. I honestly can't praise this book enough. It has inspired me to want to read more of Welty's work as well as other great Southern writers. An excellent introduction... In some ways, perhaps in structure and narrative tone, it reminded me of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Again, this is one of the greatest books I have ever read! Enjoy! Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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Delta Wedding is one book I'm going to have to read again.,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Delta Wedding: A Novel (Harvest/HBJ Book) (Taschenbuch)
This book is deep, deep without being ponderous or erudite. It is deep like life, like an ordinary day, filled with significant events and events whose significance has yet to be found. Living in the cold northeast and not having travelled much outside New England, I loved Delta Wedding for its description of the Mississippi Delta, its people and their way of life. Reading a book like Delta Wedding makes me itch to write a novel of my own, to celebrate, to examine life in my small corner of the world the way Ms Welty does the Mississippi Delta.
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