Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Elizabeth Spencer

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1194868567

Responsibility statement

Michael Gorra, editor

Series statement

The Library of America, 344

Sub title

novels & stories : The voice at the back door ; The light in the Piazza ; Knights and dragons ; Selected stories

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

Target audience

adult

Classification