Friendship and Sympathy

From <i>Library Journal</i><p>This collection of essays reviews speeches and interviews details the interaction among a number of Southwestern women writers including Katherine Anne Porter Eudora Welty Zora Neale Hurston Flannery O'Connor Anne Tyler Alice Walker and Josephine Humphreys. Occupation gender and region conspire to join these authors in kinship and like family members they offer criticism support admiration and understanding to one another. This anthology will be useful both in the college classroom and for the general reader. It is sure to enlighten entertain inspire and delight.<p>- Dorothy Golden Georgia Southern Univ. Statesboro