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Elizabeth Spencer : novels & stories : The voice at the back door ; The light in the Piazza ; Knights and dragons ; Selected stories / Michael Gorra, editor.
Van Pelt Library PS3537.P4454 A6 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019, author.
- Series:
- Library of America ; 344.
- The Library of America ; 344
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--Mississippi--Fiction.
- Racism.
- Italy--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Italy.
- Manners and customs.
- Mississippi.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Florence (Italy)--Fiction.
- Florence (Italy).
- People with mental disabilities--Fiction.
- People with mental disabilities.
- Rome (Italy)--Fiction.
- Rome (Italy).
- Italy--Florence.
- Italy--Rome.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 863 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2021]
- 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
- Selected Stories. First dark
- Marilee stories. 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
- Edward Glenn stories. The Runaways ; The Master of Shongalo ; Return Trip ; First Child ; On the Hill ; The Wedding Visitor.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1598536869
- 9781598536867
- OCLC:
- 1194868567
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