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Liveright
January 2014
On Sale: January 13, 2014
200 pages
ISBN: 0871406810
EAN: 9780871406811
Kindle: B00DX5X9UW
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Fiction | Literature and Fiction
One of the masters of American short fiction—author
of The Light in the Piazza—returns with a new
collection of stories. 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.
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