Where the light falls : selected stories of Nancy Hale / Nancy Hale ; edited by Lauren Groff.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xxi, 351 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781598536423
- 1598536427
- Short stories. Selections
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Hale, Nancy | Available | 33111009548351 |
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.