Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor
by Westling, Louise
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0820307467
- ISBN 13
- 9780820307466
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About This Item
Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Previous owner's name on ffep. Cloth over boards has light edge rubbing. DJ has overall light shelf wear. ; Explores the impact of the South's ambiguous ultural terrain in forming the literary worlds of Welty, McCullers, and O'Connor. Contents: Preface and Introduction. The blight of Southern womanhood. Growing up in the modern South. The enchanted maternal gardens of Delta Wedding. Venturesome daughters. Tomboys and revolting femininity. Good country people. O'Connor's sacred landscapes. Place, freedom, and feminine identity. Notes, bibliography, index. ; 9.25" tall; 217 pages.
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- Bookseller
- Cat's Cradle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3680064
- Title
- Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor
- Author
- Westling, Louise
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0820307467
- ISBN 13
- 9780820307466
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Place of Publication
- Athens, Georgia
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- AMERICA, UNITED STATES, SOUTH, LITERATURE, FICTION, LITERARY CRITICISM
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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