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Where the light falls : selected stories of Nancy Hale /

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"Haunting, vivid, and wonderfully subversive, Hale's stories typically concern women recognizable to all of us--sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, deceptively ordinary, navigating their way uncertainly through life" --

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988 (Author)
Other Authors: Groff, Lauren (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The Library of America, [2019]
Subjects:
Women > Fiction.
Life change events > Fiction.
Self-realization in women > Fiction.
Short stories, American.
Life change events.
Self-realization in women.
Women.
Fiction.
Short stories.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / by Lauren Groff
  • The earliest dreams
  • The double house
  • Midsummer
  • To the north
  • Crimson autumn
  • That woman
  • A place to hide in
  • Book review
  • Those are as brothers
  • The marching feet
  • Sunday--1913
  • Who lived and died believing
  • Some day I'll find you...
  • On the beach
  • Inside
  • The empress's ring
  • The bubble
  • Miss August
  • How would you like to be born...
  • Outside
  • A slow boat to China
  • Flotsam
  • Rich people
  • Sunday lunch
  • The most elegant drawing room in Europe
  • Sources.