Book
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- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
Elizabeth Spencer : novels & stories
Call Number
- FICTION SPEN (CEN)
Publication Information
New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2021]
Physical Description
863 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
Contents
- The Voice at the Back Door
- The Light in the Piazza
- Knights and Dragons
- First dark
- A Southern Landscape ; Sharon ; Indian Summer ; The White Azalea ; Ship Island ; The Bufords ; A Christian Education ; The Girl Who Loved Horses ; The Cousins ; Jack of Diamonds ; The Business Venture ; The Legacy
- The Runaways ; The Master of Shongalo ; Return Trip ; First Child ; On the Hill ; The Wedding Visitor.