There are glimpses into the inner thoughts of some. Everyone is there and we get to know most of them in some way at least, in Miss Welty's panoramas of the family scene. The author is attentive to nearly all members of the family and highly-charged children dart in and out of the book's dialogue, just as they do whenever there are a lot of people in the house for a grand celebration. It's a large family and there are aunts living with them and more uncles, aunts, and great aunts and cousins to descend upon the home for the wedding and fest to follow. The second daughter of Battle and Ellen Fairchild is marrying Troy Flavin, the overseer of the Fairchild cotton farm on the Yazoo River in the Mississippi delta. The style is brisk and breezy but not light. The interplay of family life, with a dozen different people saying and doing a dozen different things all at the same time, is wonderfully handled by Miss Welty so that no detail is lost.Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty was a joy to read, although sometimes the syntax took some getting used to. Upon publication, The New York Times praised the work, describing it as venturing "deep into the motives and moods and compulsions that move characters. Set in 1923, Delta Wedding tells of the experiences of a memorable family, the Fairchilds, living in the rich Delta land of Mississippi in the early 1920s. Fine in a very good dust jacket.Įudora Welty won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973 for her short story novel the Optimist's daughter, in addition to numerous other awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South. With the publisher’s advance copy slip to the half-title page dated April 15 1946. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.įirst edition, review copy of the Pulitzer prize-winning author’s second novel.
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