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description: The Library of America  Story of the WeekIn a Mississippi beauty parlor a beautician and her customer discuss husbands boarders from out of town and the strange inhabitants of a traveling circus sideshow.Reprinted from Eudora Welty: Stories Essays &amp; Memoir (The Library of America 1992) pages 2236.First published in the Southern Review (Spring 1939) and collected in A Curtain of Green and Other Stories (1941). Copyright  1939 by Eudora Welty; copyright renewed  1967. Reprinted by the permission of Russell &amp; Volkening as agents for Eudora Welty LLC.
language: English
title: The Petrified Man
publisher: Story of the Week