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Where the light falls : selected stories of Nancy Hale / Nancy Hale ; edited by Lauren Groff.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xxi, 351 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781598536423
  • 1598536427
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction / by Lauren Groff -- The earliest dreams -- The double house -- Midsummer -- To the north -- Crimson autumn -- That woman -- A place to hide in -- Book review -- Those are as brothers -- The marching feet -- Sunday--1913 -- Who lived and died believing -- Some day I'll find you... -- On the beach -- Inside -- The empress's ring -- The bubble -- Miss August -- How would you like to be born... -- Outside -- A slow boat to China -- Flotsam -- Rich people -- Sunday lunch -- The most elegant drawing room in Europe -- Sources.
Summary: "Haunting, vivid, and wonderfully subversive, Hale's stories typically concern women recognizable to all of us--sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, deceptively ordinary, navigating their way uncertainly through life" -- dust jacket.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Hale, Nancy Available 33111009548351
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Lauren Groff has selected twenty-five of Nancy Hale's best stories in the first career-spanning edition of her work. The stories seem ahead of their time in their depiction of women - sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, often remarkable in their apparent ordinariness; from an adolescent girl driven into delirium over her burgeoning sexuality in Midsummer, to a twenty-something New Yorker experiencing culture shock on a visit to a friend s house in Virginia in That Woman. Haunting, vivid, and subversive in the best sense, Where the Light Falls is nothing less than a major literary rediscovery.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / by Lauren Groff -- The earliest dreams -- The double house -- Midsummer -- To the north -- Crimson autumn -- That woman -- A place to hide in -- Book review -- Those are as brothers -- The marching feet -- Sunday--1913 -- Who lived and died believing -- Some day I'll find you... -- On the beach -- Inside -- The empress's ring -- The bubble -- Miss August -- How would you like to be born... -- Outside -- A slow boat to China -- Flotsam -- Rich people -- Sunday lunch -- The most elegant drawing room in Europe -- Sources.

"Haunting, vivid, and wonderfully subversive, Hale's stories typically concern women recognizable to all of us--sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, deceptively ordinary, navigating their way uncertainly through life" -- dust jacket.

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