The optimist's daughter /

This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. "The Optimist's Daughter" is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House, [1972]
Subjects:	Women > Mississippi > Fiction. Funeral rites and ceremonies > Fiction. Fathers > Death > Fiction. Reminiscing > Fiction. Reunions > Fiction. Mississippi > Fiction. Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Fiction.