The Wide Net And Other Stories: Classic Short Stories from the American South and Mississippi's Natchez Trace (A Harvest Book, Hb278)
Set against the river landscape around the Natchez Trace, this short story explores hidden tensions, secrets, and the distance within marriages and families. The communal atmosphere matters more than any outside event, sharpening the feeling of individual loneliness.
Work Information
Like a river current, the fraying of relationships appears quietly.
The title story in The Wide Net and Other Stories captures the tensions and distances hidden inside ordinary life with Welty’s characteristic precision. Instead of a major plot turn, it is conversation and silence that reveal the relationships.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Mariner Books Classics
- Published
- 1974-03-20
- Pages
- 228 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 20.27 x 13.51 x 1.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780156966108
- ISBN-10
- 0156966107
- Price
- 2632 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Anthologies & Literary Collections/General
These eight stories reveal the singular imaginative power of one of America's most admired writers. Set in the Old Natchez Trace region, the stories dip in and out of history and range from virgin wilderness to a bar in New Orleans. In each story, Miss Welty sustains the high level of performance that, throughout her distinguished career, has won her numerous literary awards. "Miss Welty runs a photofinish with the finest prose artists of her time" (Time).
EUDORA WELTY (1909–2001) was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and attended the Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University (where she studied advertising). In addition to short fiction, Welty wrote novels, novellas, essays, and reviews, and was the winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Related Literary Awards
- O. Henry Award Edition 24 (1942) ・Winner