Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale by Nancy Hale

Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale by Nancy Hale

Rediscover the masterful stories of a midcentury artist whose multifaceted portraits of women were generations ahead of her time>

A stunning, crystalline collection. --Vogue

Nancy Hale was considered one of the preeminent short story artists of her era, a prolific writer whose long association with>The New Yorker rivaled that of her contemporary John Cheever. But few readers today will recognize her name. Acclaimed author Lauren Groff has selected twenty-five of Hale's best stories, presented here in the first career-spanning edition of this astonishingly gifted writer's work.

These stories seem ahead of their time in their depiction of women--complicated characters, sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, often remarkable in their apparent ordinariness, from an adolescent girl in Connecticut driven into delirium over her burgeoning sexuality in Midsummer, to a twenty-something New Yorker experiencing culture shock during a visit to a friend's house in Virginia in That Woman, to a New England widow in search of alcohol while babysitting her grandson in Flotsam. Other stories touch on memories of childhood, the intense trauma of electroshock therapy, and the spectre of white supremacy. Haunting, vivid, and subversive in the best sense, Where the Light Falls is nothing less than a major literary rediscovery.

Rediscover the masterful stories of a midcentury artist whose multifaceted portraits of women were generations ahead of her time>

A stunning, crystalline collection. --Vogue

Nancy Hale was considered one of the preeminent short story artists of her era, a prolific writer whose long association with>The New Yorker rivaled that of her contemporary John Cheever. But few readers today will recognize her name. Acclaimed author Lauren Groff has selected twenty-five of Hale's best stories, presented here in the first career-spanning edition of this astonishingly gifted writer's work.

These stories seem ahead of their time in their depiction of women--complicated characters, sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, often remarkable in their apparent ordinariness, from an adolescent girl in Connecticut driven into delirium over her burgeoning sexuality in Midsummer, to a twenty-something New Yorker experiencing culture shock during a visit to a friend's house in Virginia in That Woman, to a New England widow in search of alcohol while babysitting her grandson in Flotsam. Other stories touch on memories of childhood, the intense trauma of electroshock therapy, and the spectre of white supremacy. Haunting, vivid, and subversive in the best sense, Where the Light Falls is nothing less than a major literary rediscovery.

NANCY HALE (1908-1988), born in Boston to a family whose forebearers include Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale and Harriet Beecher Stowe, was the author of eight novels, including the best-selling The Prodigal Women, four short story collections, two memoirs, two plays, children's stories, and a biography of Mary Cassatt. With the writer Elizabeth Coles Langhorne, she was a cofounder of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

LAUREN GROFF is the New York Times-best-selling author of three novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies, and two short story collections, Delicate Edible Birds and Florida.

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ISBN 13	9781598536423
ISBN 10	1598536427
Title	Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale
Author	Nancy Hale
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	The Library of America
Year published	2019-09-24
Number of pages	373
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