Bøger af Sally Wolff

From the heartbroken protagonist she depicted in her first story, to the reflective widow she described in her last novel, Eudora Welty wrote realistically about the shadows and radiance of love. In an exploration of this theme, Sally Wolff combines readings of Welty's fiction with contextual information drawn from her friendship with Welty.

Through Dr Edgar Wiggin Francisco's vivid childhood recollections, Ledgers of History offers a compelling portrait of the future Nobel Laureate near the midpoint of his legendary career, and also charts a significant discovery that will inevitably lead to revisions in historical and critical scholarship on Faulkner and his writings.

In these interviews, and in the forty-three splendid black-and-white photographs that accompany them, we move through William Faulkner's home territory and encounter the sources of his sense of place and its past: antebellum Rowan Oak; old plantation homes and dogtrot houses; narrow one-lane bridges; country churches and cemeteries.