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Author:

Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019 author.

Title:

Elizabeth Spencer : novels & stories : The voice at the back door ; The light in the Piazza ; Knights and dragons ; Selected stories / Elizabeth Spencer; Michael Gorra, editor.

Publisher:

Library of America,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

863 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Racism--Mississippi--Fiction.
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Americans--Italy--Fiction.
Italy--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Florence (Italy)--Fiction.
Rome (Italy)--Fiction.
People with mental disabilities--Fiction.
Manners and customs.
Mothers and daughters.
People with mental disabilities.
Racism.
Italy.
Italy--Florence.
Italy--Rome.
Mississippi.
Fiction.
Novels.
Short stories.

Other Authors:

Gorra, Michael Edward, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

The Wedding Visitor. The Light in the Piazza -- Knights and Dragons -- Edward Glenn 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." Page 4 of cover.

Series:

The Library of America ; 344

ISBN:

1598536869
9781598536867

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1194868567

LCCN:

2020947349

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)