“Below them the river was glimmering, narrow, soft, and skin-colored, and slowed nearly to still-ness. The shining willow trees hung round them. The net that was being drawn out, so old and so long-used, it too looked golden, strung and tied with golden threads.”
Welty’s collection of short stories with the title story a tale of the mysteries of human relationships and the potency of the natural world.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 214 pages. Dust jacket in good condition with edge wear and chipping—in protector. Boards and spine clean and bright with minor edge wear. Binding solid and square. Pages tanned. Very nice copy.
