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What There Is To Say We Have Said: The Correspondence Of Eudora Welty And William Maxwell (2011)

by Suzanne Marrs(Favorite Author)

4.18 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0547376499 (ISBN13: 9780547376493)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: Well, my dears, this is my favorite book I've read all year. Welty and Maxwell were phenomenal writers and shared such love of books and flowers and travel and good writing and many other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile. It was a pleasure to have a look into their lives and to see the last century partly through their eyes. It was a look at a time that I fear has passed for literary types. It was a wonderful meditation on friendship and on what we, as people, can share. Reading it made me want to spend my time more wisely and to be a better person. What a joy.
review 2: First read 5/21/11-6/18/11--Just as interesting and enjoyable the second time through.********************************If I could give this book six stars, I would. The corre... morespondence between William Maxwell and Eudora Welty started in 1942 and continued for 54 years. This selection of letters lets the reader peek over the shoulders of two marvelous letter writers as they converse about books, family, writing, gardening, politics, friends and the literary 'biz'."Dashes I like better than parentheses--remembering Mark Twain's remark from somewhere, "He who would wantonly use a parenthesis would steal"--so, if you agree, dash it.". Eudora Welty"Glenway (Westcott) is enough older than we are that he remembers Halley's comet. It looked like a whiskbroom, he says.""The difficulty that accompanies you is less like the dark than a trusted lantern to see your way by." That says it. When I catch myself sitting back and having an easy time of it I know the only thing to do is throw it in the wastebasket and start over.". William Maxwell (The quote on difficulty and writing is by Eudora Welty) less

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