| Description |
863 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The Library of America ; 344
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Library of America ; 344.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Voice at the Back Door -- Light in the Piazza -- Knights and Dragons -- Selected Stories. First dark -- Marilee stories. A Southern Landscape ; Sharon ; Indian Summer ; White Azalea ; Ship Island ; Bufords ; A Christian Education ; Girl Who Loved Horses ; Cousins ; Jack of Diamonds ; Business Venture ; Legacy -- Edward Glenn stories. Runaways ; Master of Shongalo ; Return Trip ; First Child ; On the Hill ; 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.
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Racism. |
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Mississippi. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Italy -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Italy. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Mothers and daughters. |
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Florence (Italy) -- Fiction.
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People with mental disabilities -- Fiction.
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People with mental disabilities. |
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Rome (Italy) -- Fiction.
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Italy -- Florence. |
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Italy -- Rome. |
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Racism. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Gorra, Michael Edward, editor.
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| ISBN |
1598536869 (hardcover) |
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9781598536867 (hardcover) |
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