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Author Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019, author.

Title Elizabeth Spencer : novels & stories / Michael Gorra, editor.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2021]
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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F SPENCER    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  F SPENCER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC SPENCER, E    Check Shelf
Description 863 pages ; 21 cm.
Series The Library of America ; 344
Library of America ; 344.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
Subject Racism -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Italy -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Florence (Italy) -- Fiction.
People with mental disabilities -- Fiction.
Rome (Italy) -- Fiction.
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
People with mental disabilities. (OCoLC)fst01057383
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
Italy. (OCoLC)fst01204565
Italy -- Florence. (OCoLC)fst01204699
Italy -- Rome. (OCoLC)fst01204500
Mississippi. (OCoLC)fst01207034
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Added Author Gorra, Michael Edward, editor.
ISBN 1598536869 (hardcover)
9781598536867 (hardcover)
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