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Name: Elizabeth Spencer - Novels & Stories (The Voice at the Back Door; The Light in the Piazza; Knights and Dragons; Selected Stories) [LOA #344] (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 1.1 MB

Title: Elizabeth Spencer
Author: Elizabeth Spencer
Language: English
Year: 2021
Subjects: Fiction, Literature
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 9781598536867
Total pages: 146 str.

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 Southern Renaissance, though today her many books and stories are scattered or out of print. This Library of America volume brings together the very best of her writing-three novels and nineteen stories-from a career spanning more than six decades.
The Voice at the Back Door (1957), greeted by The New Yorker as "a practically perfect novel" and here restored to print, portrays small-town life in Mississippi during the late Jim Crow era and the self-interest and hatred that kept injustice firmly in place. Published two years after the Emmett Till lynching, it captures the spitting vehemence of its white characters' speech and may have been proven too potentially controversial for the...