This novel of a Mississippi family in the 1920s “presents the essence of the Deep South and does it with infinite finesse” (The Christian Science Monitor). From one of the most treasured American writers, winner of a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, comes Delta Wedding, a vivid and charming portrait of Southern life. Set in 1923, the story is centered on the Fairchilds, a big and clamorous … Fairchilds, a big and clamorous family, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. They are in the midst of planning their daughter’s wedding when a nine-year-old relative, Laura McRaven, whose mother has just died, comes to visit.
Drama leads to drama, revelation to revelation, in a novel that is “nothing short of wonderful” (The New Yorker). The result is a sometimes-riotous view of a Southern family, and the parentless child who learns to become one of them.
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Very very wordy
The depth of the relationships and the connection to place in the American South are finely detailed.
I am working my way through this book. I have several going at once and this one is wordy. I think it’s going to be slowly finished and hopefully enjoyed.
I found her writing style to be difficult to follow – however others may really enjoy this book.
I couldn’t get into it.
Sorry but this book was confusing and redundant. I read to the end but never really saw the point of the book. Too many characters, all one dimensional and forgettable.
A difficult read. I have read some of her short stories and was looking forward to this book, but found the switches between character’s perspectives difficult to follow. Plus, there are so many family members, it was hard to keep them straight. Some were conveyed in great depth, others were simply observed in flashes. She has a beautiful, poetic style and captures the feel of place but I struggled with this.
A charming story that could only be written by Eudora Welty.
I just didn’t like this book.
I love Eudora Welty . She hit Southern dialog in Delta Wedding on the mark.
Just not for me. The writing seemed disjointed and it felt like too many characters were scattered about without any information about who why what? Gave up early on, may try it again sometime.
Very hard to read and keep track of the characters
Welty captures the ongoing chaos of a Southern family on the cusp of change. I hadn’t read her before and found her prose engrossing but sometimes hard to follow. Like her characters who were constantly in motion and hard to define, it seemed her prose was also ambiguous. But,, she captures a feeling and a time that is now gone.
Classic; one of a kind. Great Southern writer of the time!