The Southern Woman
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The Southern Woman by Elizabeth Spencer
A stunning collection from one of the South's masters of short fiction, including the novella Light in the Piazza Elizabeth Spencer wrote masterly, lyrical short stories and novellas about Southerners for more than fifty years. Her short fiction, infused with the sense of place and the elegant precision of an original voice, has earned her a reputation as one of our most accomplished writers of the form. The Southern Woman collects the best of Spencer's shorter fiction. The book displays Spencer's range of place--the agrarian South, Italy in the decade after World War I, the gray-sky North, and, finally, the contemporary Sun Belt. In The Little Brown Girl, young Maybeth discovers the limits of friendship in a racially divided world. In First Dark, a young man returns home to tiny Richton, Mississippi, a land of mourning and shadows and memory. In the elegiac story The Cousins, a group of Southerners roams through Italy, tangling with love and regret and the grip of family. Also included is The Light in the Piazza, the novella about an American woman and her daughter in Florence that first brought Spencer widespread acclaim, selling more than two million copies worldwide and inspiring the popular award-winning Broadway musical. In this capstone collection, Elizabeth Spencer firmly claims her place in the long heritage of the Southern short story.
Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) was the author of nine novels, eight collections of short stories, a memoir, and a play. She was a five-time recipient of the O. Henry Award and a two-time National Book Award finalist, and the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. Spencer was elected in the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1985, and in 2009 received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.
Michael Gorra, editor, is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985. He is the author of The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany, Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the Biography, and The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War.
Michael Gorra, editor, is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College, where he has taught since 1985. He is the author of The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany, Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the Biography, and The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593241189 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593241185 |
| Titel | The Southern Woman |
| Autor | Elizabeth Spencer |
| Serie | Modern Library Torchbearers |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Random House USA Inc |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2021-05-11 |
| Seitenanzahl | 528 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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