The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty 🔖

First published January 1, 1980 

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Literary awards: National Book Award for Fiction 1983, National Book Award Finalist for Fiction 1981

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Including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected ones, these forty-one stories demonstrate Eudora Welty's talent for writing from diverse points-of-view with “vision that is sweet by nature, always humanizing, uncannily objective, but never angry” (Washington Post).

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I have to disagree about Eudora Welty's vision being "sweet by nature, always humanizing, uncannily objective" as Washington Posts Suggest. This book contained the forty-one promised stories and I enjoyed exactly zero. I *almost* liked two. I have no idea about the author as a person, though I read her as pompous. I could be way off. I hated the frequent use of the n word, that seemed to be not cool during the time period in which she wrote. Her stories often made no sense to me. Most times, it was as if two or more stories were pieced together to make one, and they were not related in the least. One paragraph we could be talking about apples and the very next thought is so completely unrelated and could be about something like the lake. I kept feeling like I was missing paragraphs. 

I'm betting I just missed the brilliance.