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Losing Battles (Vintage International) Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherVintage
- Publication dateJuly 20, 2011
- File size1309 KB
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- ASIN : B004KABF2I
- Publisher : Vintage; Reissue edition (July 20, 2011)
- Publication date : July 20, 2011
- Language : English
- File size : 1309 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 450 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0679728821
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,150,014 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,531 in Literary Short Stories
- #6,197 in Historical Literary Fiction
- #9,257 in Contemporary Literary Fiction
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2019All of her work is either perfect or near perfect. And Losing Battles is a great book. Her wonderfully joyous and defiant answer to Faulkner's nightmarish As I Lay Dying.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2021The book was in great condition.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2018I read this novel years ago. I bought this copy to re-read it. It is one of my all time favorite novels
- Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2013It is hard not to fall in love with Welty's prose at first word --- this one however is bit too insular, familial.
It takes a very long time for the story to find its pace and the people are at a distance for too long
- Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2016In addition to Middlemarch, Dostoyevski, Tolstoy,Donna Tart (and a few others not at this moment coming to mind): my favorite book in the world.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2016Great!
- Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2015great
- Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2016"Losing Battles" is a story composed of rapidly paced, ever shifting dialogue among a family in the American South. There are many characters and they make constant use of local colloquialisms. I sort of need a program or "scorecard" to tell who is who. The talent, humor, and artistry of the author is evident. But the conversations never seem to end and the book just goes on and on without a real story line. I feel like the book would have made up one or more really good short stories.
I want so much to like the writing of Eudora Welty. I have read all of her short stories. I have read "Delta Wedding", "The Robber Bridegroom", "The Ponder Heart" and now "Losing Battles". I am afraid I am the one losing the battle. As I will describe below, I really like what I know of Eudora Welty as a person and I really want to like her work.
I really liked her earliest short stories. The ones I am referring to are in a collection, "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories". They are really enjoyable writings of the Southern tradition. She also wrote a later story about a civil rights assassination called "Where Is The Voice Coming From?" that I felt was very poignant and heartfelt. I also enjoyed very much "The Ponder Heart". "Delta Wedding" was OK, but just sort of ambles along, like I imagine a hot slow moving summer day in the old south.
However, Miss Welty writes a lot of very artistic works that I really struggle with. She writes stories that are like adult fairy tales. They are very classy and very artistic, but I just can't get into the flow of them.
I have read a really informative biography of Eudora Welty authored by Suzanne Marrs. It is also not always an easy read, but it is very informative and well documented. Suzanne Marrs really made me feel like I know, like, and respect Eudor Welty so much. That is why I want to like her work. After having read the biography, I came to realize that a great deal of Miss Welty's work is semi autobigraphical. That knowledge has really added color to this reading experience.
I have found reading this novel to be a lot of work, requiring my full concentration and I can only read a little bit at a time. I have to mix it in with other reading. I wish it were otherwise. Sigh...
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- ericwReviewed in Canada on April 9, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT NOVEL AND SERVICE
Book arrived on time as advertised--very good/like new. It was a fortunate find as this book is currently out of print. Edith Whately is one of the THE major writers of the South.
- R H TAYLORReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2021
4.0 out of 5 stars Good story line
Great book to read enjoyed it
- Brian DuffinReviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2018
4.0 out of 5 stars Add to your collection
Another addition to the Welty canon. A wonderful read.