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The optimist's daughter

Laurel Hand is forced to face her Southern past when she returns to Mississippi for her father's funeral.

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  • "Figlia dell'ottimista"@it
  • "Daughter of optimist [i.e. the optimist's daughter]"
  • "Daughter of optimist"
  • "Optimist's daughter"

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  • "Laurel Hand is forced to face her Southern past when she returns to Mississippi for her father's funeral."@en
  • "When Laurel Hand, a Mississippian living in Chicago, is summoned to a New Orleans hospital to join her father, a 71-year-old Judge who is about to undergo a critical eyes operation, she clashes with his new, and second, wife, Fay."
  • "Judge McKelva was seen as a reassuring figure. People looked at him, with his wife Becky and daughter Laurel, and they felt good: that was how well bred people ought to be. But when, 10 years after his wife's death, the Judge marries silly young Fay, everyone is disconcerted - especially Laurel."
  • "This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations."
  • "A woman who has left the South returns when her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back to the small Mississippi town where she grew up."
  • "A woman who has left the South returns when her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back to the small Mississippi town where she grew up."@en
  • "This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. "The Optimist's Daughter" is 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. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents."
  • "This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. "The Optimist's Daughter" is 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. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents."@en
  • "When she returns to the small Mississippi town where she grew up, Laurel McKelva Hand is forced to come to terms with her Southern roots as she struggles to resolve issues of the past, her parents, and herself."
  • "Laurel Hand, long absent from the South, comes from Chicago to New Orleans, where her father dies after surgery. With Fay, the stupid new young wife of her father, Laurel returns to her former Mississippi home and stays a few days after the funeral for reunions with old friends. In a night alone in the house she grew up in, she confronts elements of the past and comes to a better understanding of it and of herself and her parents."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "General fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Downloadable e-Book"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Translations"

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  • "Die Tochter des Optimisten"
  • "The optimist's daughter : [a novel]"
  • "La hija del optimista"@es
  • "The optimist's daughter"
  • "The optimist's daughter"@en
  • "La filla de l'optimista"
  • "La fille de l'optimiste"
  • "The Optimist's daughter"
  • "The Optimist's daughter"@en
  • "Optimistova dcera"
  • "Le tian zhe de nü er"
  • "La hija del optimista / The optimist's daughter"
  • "乐观者的女儿"
  • "Optimistens dotter"
  • "Optimistens dotter"@sv
  • "Optimist's daughter"
  • "Ē korē tou aisiodoxou dikastē Mak Kelva"
  • "Le tian zhe de nu er"
  • "Makkeruvake no musume"@ja
  • "Makkeruvake no musume"
  • "Le guan zhe de nu er"
  • "Die Tochter des Optimisten : Roman"
  • "Дочь оптимиста : роман рассказы : перевод с Английского"
  • "マッケルヴァ家の娘"
  • "Optimistens dotter : [roman]"@sv
  • "The Optimist's Daughter"
  • "The Optimist's Daughter"@en
  • "Dochʹ optimista : roman rasskazy : perevod s Anglijskogo"
  • "乐天者的女儿 = The daughter of optimist [i.e the optimist's daughter]"
  • "La fille de l'optimiste : roman"
  • "The optimist's daughter : [a novel ]"
  • "樂觀者的女兒"
  • "Optimistin tytär"@fi
  • "Die Tochter des Optimisten Roman"
  • "樂天者的女兒"
  • "Le guan zhe de nü er"
  • "La figlia dell'ottimista"
  • "La figlia dell'ottimista"@it
  • "The optimists daughter"
  • "La Fille de l'optimiste"
  • "The optimist's daughter = Eudora Welty"
  • "La Filla de l'optimista"@ca
  • "Le tian zhe de nuu er = The daughter of opimist [i.e. the optimist's daughter]"

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