Elizabeth Spencer

• Feb-1981
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• Aug-1981
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• Jun-1983
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• Jan-1984
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""Spencer''s refined, sensuous writing and laser insights inform this novel, as extraordinary as her other works."" -- Publishers Weekly
At a certain point approaching the Mississippi coast, the air fills with the salt smell of the Gulf of Mex...

• Sep-1986
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Margaret Johnson and her beautiful, twenty-six-year-old daughter, Clara, are touring the Tuscan countryside. While sightseeing, Clara meets a good-looking young Italian man, Fabrizio, and quickly embarks on a whirlwind romance with him, despite her m...

• Dec-1986
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In the mid-1950s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a place where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly separate, are in fact historically and inevitably intertwined. When Lacey''s fair-haired boy, Duncan Harper, is a...

• Apr-1987
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Admirers of Elizabeth Spencer's writing will welcome back into print her first novel, and her new readers will discover the sources of her notable talent in this book. Published in 1948 to extraordinary attention from such eminent writers as Rober...

• Aug-1988
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A collection of stories peopled by a varied group of characters who come to an awakening realization in themselves; explores the life-shaping interplay between cultural realities and individual expectations...

• Aug-1991
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Elizabeth Spencer is "a master storyteller" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), her work called "dazzling" by Walker Percy. Whether she's writing short stories or novels, Spencer is acclaimed for holding her worlds up to light and turning them to see what t...

• Mar-1996
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Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. For her it has been a second home. A one-time resident who returns there, this native-born Mississippian has found Italy to be an enchanting land whose culture lends itself powerfully to her artistic visio...

• Apr-1999
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Set in the 1960's, The Night Travelers, portrays America under the shadow of the Vietnam War and the counterculture that developed in opposition to the war. The characters reflect a time when often violent pressures affected the American community a...

• Aug-2009
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A stunning collection of stories from “one of the foremost chroniclers of the American South” (The Washington Post), including the novella “Light in the Piazza” -- featuring an introduction by Afia Atakora, author of Conjure Women  ...

• Feb-2012
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Elizabeth Spencer presents a vital, moving story set in the deep South--the Delta and Mississippi hill country. Amos Dudley was a farm boy in the Delta country at the turn of the century until he started working for his brother Ephraim in the store b...

• Feb-2013
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The magnetic appeal of land, sea, and sky along the southern coast has drawn Elizabeth Spencer many times to this lush and semitropical setting. This collection brings together six of her stories set amid terrain lapped by the warm coastal currents. ...

• Jan-2014
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Winner of the Rea Award for Short Fiction Winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters’ Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award "A rare and true master" (Richard Ford), the celebrated author ...

• May-2015
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Hailed as Elizabeth Spencer's best novel (Michael Gorra, New York Review of Books), this lost masterpiece of midcentury America traces the decline of the fortunate and the search for redemption in Kennedy-era America.Winner of five O. Henry Awards an...

• Dec-2016
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Within the walls of the Bastion, it's an honor to become a host for an Unending -- the bodiless, immortal spirits who rule the country. But for Faye, it meant her sister would have to die. When Faye sneaks into the Mother Duchess's manor, she just wa...

• Jun-2021
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On her centennial, a contemporary of Flannery O’Connor and Harper Lee joins the Library of America with a volume that restores to print her searing novel about the late Jim Crow South Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) was a major figure of the Sou...

• Apr-2022
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In conferring upon Mississippi native Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) the 2013 Rea Award for the Short Story, the jury said that at the then age of ninety-two, she has thrived at the height of her powers to a degree that is unparalleled in modern lette...