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Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality but of her writing as well. Everyday sights, sounds, and objects resonate with the emotions of recollection: the striking clocks, the Victrola, her orphaned father's coverless little book saved since boyhood, the tall mountains of the West Virginia backcountry that became a metaphor for her mother's sturdy independence, Eudora's earliest box camera that suspended a moment forever and taught her that every feeling awaits a gesture.
In her vivid descriptions of growing up in the South—of the interplay between black and white, between town and countryside, between dedicated schoolteachers and the children they taught—she recreates the vanished world of her youth with the same subtlety and insight that mark her fiction, capturing "the mysterious transfiguring gift by which dream, memory, and experience become art" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Part memoir, part exploration of the seeds of creativity, these lectures recorded at Harvard in 1983 offer a rare glimpse into the Mississippi childhood that made Eudora Welty the acclaimed and important writer she would become.
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October 5, 2021 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781797111971
- File size: 87125 KB
- Duration: 03:01:30
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- English
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- Lexile® Measure: 1130
- Text Difficulty: 8-9
Formats
- OverDrive Listen audiobook
Languages
- English
Levels
- Lexile® Measure:1130
- Text Difficulty:8-9
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