The Optimist's Daughter: Pulitzer Prize Winner 8 Fiction Date: 12/22/1988

Date: 12/22/1988

Farnoosh Moshiri has written one of the most moving novels to come out in years

and her happiness assured

To its official boosters

it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an ‘artistic dinner’ hosted by a composer and his society wife—a couple he once admired and has come to loathe

The Optimist's Daughter: Pulitzer Prize Winner 8 Fiction Date: 12/22/1988Author Contributor(s): Welty, Eudora Publisher: Vintage Date: 8 11 1990 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW This Pulitzer Prizewinning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Along in the old house, Laurel finally comes