The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction (Modern Library)
by Elizabeth Spencer
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780679642183 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield. The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, restores to print the author's most masterful stories and novellasincluding "The Light in the Piazza" - and publishes more than ten new stories for the first time. This collection celebrates a six-decade career devoted to the art of the story and the novella - a literary event for the lover of short fiction.
Synopsis:
Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield. The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, restores to print the author's most masterful stories and novellasincluding "The Light in the Piazza" - and publishes more than ten new stories for the first time. This collection celebrates a six-decade career devoted to the art of the story and the novella - a literary event for the lover of short fiction.
About the Author
Elizabeth Spencer is the author of more than a dozen collections of stories and novels. Born in 1921 in Carrollton, Mississippi, she currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780679642183
- Subtitle:
- New and Selected Fiction
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Modern Library
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Italy
- Subject:
- Social life and customs
- Subject:
- Women
- Subject:
- Short Stories (single author)
- Subject:
- Short stories
- Subject:
- Southern states
- Edition Number:
- 2001
- Edition Description:
- Hardcover
- Series:
- Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Series Volume:
- 106-28
- Publication Date:
- July 2001
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 480
- Dimensions:
- 8.34x5.84x1.06 in. 1.21 lbs.









