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Title: How did this win the Pulitzer?
Review: Thankfully, this was a novella or I would have never finished it. The story is pointless. The protagonist is a weak, spineless woman who allows herself to be abused by her father's second wife without much resistance. I was annoyed from the moment I started reading this by every character in it. If that was Welty's goal then I give this 5 stars instead of 2. Maybe one has to be a southerner to understand this book. The pulitzer board refused to give Pynchon the prize in '74 but they give it to this terrible book. I have read a few Pulitzer prize winning novels and this is the only one that I did not enjoy at all. I give an author one chance and Welty used hers up. May I suggest Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Hersey's A Bell for Adano, Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea or Momaday's House Made of Dawn (just to name a few)if you want to read deserving pulitzer winners. This book is a waste of time.
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