Delta Wedding (G K Hall Large Print Perennial Bestseller Collection)

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Summary: Like being a member of the family
Review: Reading "Delta Wedding" is like attending a family wedding and meeting all your distant relatives for the first time. You have a sense of belonging and, at the same time, a sense of being an outsider. Everyone seems to know everyone so much better than you do and you're rushing to catch up on everyone's story and sort out who is who. This is a relatively short book, but perhaps because she is primarily a short-story writer, Eudora Welty has packed this book so densely with character and detail, you will feel as though you have read a family saga of many hundred pages. The delta is recreated in such detail that you can feel the humid, misty breezes and hear the crickets chirping. The young girls through whose perspective you watch the proceedings are enchanting. Struggling to keep track of the characters forced me to go back and re-read parts of the book at times, which was, in fact, helpful in discovering important overlooked details. This is a book you can re-read many times always discovering something or someone new. Eudora Welty ranks at the very top of Southern writers and American writers in general.

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Summary: Delta Wedding is one book I'm going to have to read again.
Review: This book is deep, deep without being ponderous or erudite. It is deep like life, like an ordinary day, filled with significant events and events whose significance has yet to be found. Living in the cold northeast and not having travelled much outside New England, I loved Delta Wedding for its description of the Mississippi Delta, its people and their way of life. Reading a book like Delta Wedding makes me itch to write a novel of my own, to celebrate, to examine life in my small corner of the world the way Ms Welty does the Mississippi Delta.

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Summary: Disappointment
Review: This is the first I've ever read of Eudora Welty, and I found the book to meander aimlessly and end inconclusively. I'm still not sure what the plot was or who the central character was. Also, I found the Fairchild family very self-absorbed and uninteresting. But, I got the sense I was supposed to be awed by them. The only interesting character was Laura, but she remain undeveloped throughout the novel. Granted, Welty offers some beautiful descriptions of the South and various characters, but they don't make up for an overall poor read.

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Summary: Advil, anyone?
Review: This novel was the hardest I have ever read. It was not due to content, but due to the writing itself. Welty's writing reminds of a combination of Faulkner and Chekhov, only without any skill. The characters were never developed, the plot was weak, and the book as a whole was disappointing literature. It turned me off of Eudora Welty completly.

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Summary: In Defense of Delta Wedding
Review: Unlike the reader from Ohio, I loved Delta Wedding. It was my first introduction to Eudora Welty. I found her prose beautiful and loved the characters. Her vivid descriptions brought the family to life.
In this age of complicated plots and endless soul-srching, I found a great deal of comfort in this simple novel. It seems to me that Welty intended Delta Wedding to be a story of a very common event--a family wedding. Nothing more. Nothing less!

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Summary: In Defense of Delta Wedding
Review: Unlike the reader from Ohio, I loved Delta Wedding. It was my first introduction to Eudora Welty. I found her prose beautiful and loved the characters. Her vivid descriptions brought the family to life.
In this age of complicated plots and endless soul-srching, I found a great deal of comfort in this simple novel. It seems to me that Welty intended Delta Wedding to be a story of a very common event--a family wedding. Nothing more. Nothing less!