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In this beautifully evocative memoir Eudora Welty's family, friends, and her
surroundings spring to life. She describes her father's passion for "instruments that
instruct," and her mother's love of books and reading. So great, as a matter of fact,
was her mother's love of books that once, when a small fire started in their house, her
mother tossed all the books out the windows before getting herself to safety. She
describes family trips that planted the seeds for her first novel, and from those seeds
her words grew. Ultimately, ONE WRITER'S BEGINNINGS is a description of how a writer's
sensibilities are shaped. "There has never been a line read," she rites,
"that I didn't hear."
--- Reviewed by Judith Handschuh
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