This volume offers readings of Eudora Weltys last two novels Losing Battles1970 and The Optimists Daughter 1972 which won a Pulitzer prize. Theessays focus on W... » 

This volume offers readings of Eudora Weltys last two novels Losing Battles1970 and The Optimists Daughter 1972 which won a Pulitzer prize. Theessays focus on Weltys work as a novelist although she was better known as awriter of short fiction a critic and reviewer a photographer and anautobiographer. This collection seeks to stimulate interest in this aspect ofthe writers talent and to serve as a guide to reading and teaching her latenovels. «