Snowdie has to bring up her twin boys alone after her husband, King Maclain, disappears one day, discarding his hat on the banks of the Big Black. Loch Morrison, convalescing with malaria, watches from his bedroom window as wayward Virgie Rainey meets a sailor in the vacant house opposite. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Author(s): Eudora Welty Number of pages: 304 Collection: Penguin Modern Classics Publication date: 2011 Dimensions: 199 x 370 x 21 Cover type: Paperback / softback