Book description
This is the first collection of Welty’s stories, originally published in 1941. It includes such classics as “A Worn Path,” “Petrified Man,” “Why I Live at the P.O.,” and “Death of a Traveling Salesman.” The historic Introduction by Katherine Anne Porter brought Welty to the attention of the american reading…
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I love this book because I am fascinated with Eudora Welty's early stories, especially Why I Live at the P.O. In the late 1970s, I had never seen or heard Eudora Welty, but I loved the stories in this book.
When I happened to see and hear Miss Welty read Why I Live at the P.O. on TV on May 14, 1978, I wrote in my journal, "Tomorrow I will start writing fiction," and I did. Welty showed me that adventure, in a funny and deep way, could include the types of relationships I had grown up with in…
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