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    <body><![CDATA[I hope Eudora Welty, who died recently, is not being slowly forgotten, and I hope also she is not slipping into the category of &quot;beloved regional author&quot; or some such nonsense.  Welty was a major American writer who wrote some highly challenging artworks.  This, for my money, is her best b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5412649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has been an albatross around my neck all freaking summer. I found it on a table of free books while out for a walk one day, and I thought, being a writer and a Southerner, perhaps I should read one of the most lauded Southern writers. There were a couple chapters of this book that I just l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1778866">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hated this &quot;novel&quot;...but as I did my critical analysis of it, I kind of grew to appreciate one of the characters. And after delving into the mythological aspects of the short stories, I think I could grow to actually like it in its entirety simply because of the smart ways mythology is t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70533794">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't care for short stories but Eudora Welty is such an interesting writer. Her stories have the subtle strangeness of Flannery O'Conner's stories. She makes us see mundane events for the peculiarness that exists within them.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book of short stories set in a fictional town in old school Mississippi (~1940s). I am generally not a fan of short stories and this book did nothing to change my mind. However, Eudora Welty is excellent at crafting original and striking metaphors, similes, and descriptions of every day li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8775273">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rereading this for a class I'm teaching this summer on the short story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard to get into initially because she writes in circles and the language is unfamiliar. But hang in there, it's so rewarding! so beautiful.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most thrilling writers of voice I've ever encountered.  Obvious comparisons include Flannery O'Connor, of course, but really Welty is a woman all her own, these characters people all their own.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Something about the writing seems put on....and her use of the word nigger is not inventive, but perhaps just indicitave of where and when she grew up. If anyone loves Welty and would like to educate me on why she rules, I would welcome that lesson. I am still reading it, but right now it sits at a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/198561">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm currently reading this for my book club and looking forward to Eudora Welty, who's supposed to be a classic of Southern Literature. I may pick this up later but don't have time for it right now.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am trying but I am really having a difficulty time with her writing - and she's a classic! What am I missing?? <br/><br/>later - I pretty much quit - I tried.  And she is revered as such a great writer...???]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I admit I was confused half the time by the twists and turns in both dialogue and plot. But it was a pleasant kind of mental exercise.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brutal. I really love this book. I have grown with it.]]></body>
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