Elizabeth Spencer : novels & stories /
Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings toget...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Library of America,
[2021]
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| Series: | Library of America ;
344. |
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| Summary: | Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial politics in the world of Jim Crow Mississippi, the beloved classic The Light in the Piazza, a celebration of the possibilities of love set amidst the splendors of Florence and its "dark companion," Knights and Dragons, about a woman working in Rome who is obsessed with the enigmatic specter of her ex-husband. A selection of nineteen stories reveals Spencer, as Richard Ford writes, as "a rare and true master" of the form. |
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| Physical Description: | 863 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781598536867 1598536869 |