Elizabeth Spencer

novels & stories

Elizabeth Spencer

novels & stories
Michael Gorra editor
Book - 2021

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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書目詳細資料
主要作者: Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019 (Author)
其他作者: Gorra, Michael Edward (Editor)
格式: 圖書
語言:English
出版: New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2021]
叢編:Library of America ; 344.
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