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Elizabeth Spencer : novels & stories : The voice at the back door ; The light in the Piazza ; Knights and dragons ; Selected stories
- 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.
- Author
- Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2021]
- ©2021
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-RMRR PS221 .A4 v. 344 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
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- 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."
- Series Statement
- The Library of America ; 344
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections
- Library of America ; 344.
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Elizabeth Spencer : novels and stories.
- Subject
- Racism > Mississippi > Fiction
- African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Fiction
- Mothers and daughters > Fiction
- Interpersonal relations > Fiction
- Americans > Italy > Fiction
- People with mental disabilities > Fiction
- Manners and customs
- Mothers and daughters
- People with mental disabilities
- Racism
- Italy > Social life and customs > Fiction
- Florence (Italy) > Fiction
- Rome (Italy) > Fiction
- Italy
- Italy > Florence
- Italy > Rome
- Mississippi
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Short stories.
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- PS221
- ISBN
- 9781598536867
- 1598536869
- LCCN
- 2020947349
- OCLC
- 1194868567
- 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
- New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Library of America ; 344Library of America ; 344.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019. Voice at the back door.Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019. Light in the piazza.Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019. Knights and dragons.Gorra, Michael Edward, editor.
- Note
- Elizabeth Spencer : novels and stories.
- Research Call Number
- *R-RMRR PS221 .A4 v. 344