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The Optimist's Daughter
1972 novel by Eudora Welty
First edition | |
| Author | Eudora Welty |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 1972 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 208 pp |
| ISBN | 0-394-48017-1 |
The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning short novel by Eudora Welty.
It was first published as a long story in The New Yorker in March 1969 and was subsequently revised and published in book form in 1972.[1] It concerns a woman named Laurel, who travels to New Orleans to take care of her father, Judge McKelva, after he has surgery for a detached retina. Judge McKelva fails to recover from this surgery, and as he dies slowly in the hospital, Laurel visits and reads to him from Dickens.
Her father's second wife, Fay, who is younger than Laurel, is a shrewish outsider from Texas. Her shrill response to the Judge's illness appears to accelerate h Eudora Welty: A Brief Biography – Eudora Welty Review SUNIX