Losing Battles Author:Eudora Welty This is a novel of infinite comic detail, of inexhaustible invention, of triumphant spirit. Any of these qualities would lift LOSING BATTLES to the eminence which it is certain to enjoy, but what places it highest is Miss Welty's honoring of life in humility and hard dignity, and her finding in plain people heroism and splendor which only her in... more »sight could have shown us, and of course her incomparable prose.« less