Starting over : stories / Elizabeth Spencer.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]Edition: First editionDescription: 208 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0871406810 (hbk.)
- 9780871406811 (hbk.)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | Spencer Elizabet | Available | 33111007493964 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
On the release of her first novel in 1948, Elizabeth Spencer was immediately championed by Robert Penn Warren and Eudora Welty, setting off a remarkable career as one of the great literary voices of the American South. Her career, now spanning seven decades, continues here with nine new stories. In Starting Over, Spencer returns to the deep emotional fault lines and unseen fractures that lie just beneath the veneer of happy family life. In "Sightings," a troubled daughter suddenly returns to the home of the father she accidently blinded during her parents' bitter separation; in "Blackie," the reappearance of a son from a divorcee's first marriage triggers a harrowing confrontation with her new family; while in "The Wedding Visitor," a cousin travels home only to find himself entwined in the events leading up to a family wedding. In these nine stories, Spencer excels at revealing the flawed fabric of human relations.
Return trip -- The boy in the tree -- Sightings -- Rising tide -- The everlasting light -- On the hill -- Blackie -- Christmas longings -- The wedding visitor.
A collection of nine short stories explores the emotional fault lines that lie just beneath the surface of happy family life.