3.5
The Golden Apples
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Here in Morgana, Mississippi, the young dream of other places; the old can tell you every name on every stone in the cemetery on the town's edge; and cuckolded husbands and love-starved piano teachers share the same paths. It's also where one neighbor has disappeared on the horizon, slipping away into local legend.
Black and white, lonely and the gregarious, sexually adventurous and repressed, vengeful and resigned, restless and settled, the vividly realized characters that make up this collection of interrelated stories, with elements drawn from ancient myth and transplanted to the American South, prove that this National Book Award–winning writer, as Katherine Anne Porter once wrote, had "an ear sharp, shrewd, and true as a tuning fork."
"I doubt that a better book about 'the South'—one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life, and its special tone and pattern—has ever been written." —
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“3.5 stars
I'll start with the things I enjoyed. I loved the use of Greek mythology woven through the creation of the characters. I loved Eudora Weltys ability to capture nature. I appreciated the way that it tied together at the end.
The things I did not enjoy:
everything else.
That being said, I recognize that my level of intellect may not be high enough to fully appreciate this one. Its not for beginners.”
“Even though the prose felt a bit dense, it made me feel really close to an ineffable state of being human. Of feeling and knowing and existing so completely as to share an edge with everything.”
“I'm from Mississippi and I like to read Mississippi authors. This is a collection of short stories that are linked by characters. Some of the stories were better than others, but overall, I enjoyed it.”About Eudora Welty
EUDORA WELTY (1909–2001) was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and attended the Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia University (where she studied advertising). In addition to short fiction, Welty wrote novels, novellas, essays, and reviews, and was the winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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