Elizabeth Spencer—SOUTHERN WOMEN—New & Selected Fiction—Modern Library

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A First Edition, First Printing in HARDCOVER of: • “THE SOUTHERN WOMEN: New and Selected Fiction” (The Modern Library, 2001) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • BY ELIZABETH SPENCER • ABOUT THIS TITLE & THE AUTHOR: “Born in rural Carrollton, Mississippi, ELIZABETH SPENCER has been writing masterly stories and novellas about Southerners for more than half a century. THE SOUTHERN WOMAN collects the best of SPENCER’s shorter fiction and displays her range of place–the agrarian South, Italy in the decade after the Second World War, the gray-sky North, and the contemporary Sun Belt…. Also included is ‘THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA,’ the novella about an American woman and her daughter in Florence that brought SPENCER widespread acclaim and was adapted for both the screen and the Broadway stage. In this capstone collection, ELIZABETH SPENCER firmly claims her place in the distinguished heritage of the Southern short story.”—THE PUBLISHER • “A retrospective collection of twenty-seven stories, written over a period of more than half a century, by a Southern writer whose best fiction merits comparison with the work of KATHERINE ANNE PORTER and EUDORA WELTY.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW) • “SPENCER is a spellbinding storyteller. Her stories . . . are dense and rich as novels, as light as air; they hover in the mind like hummingbirds.” —LEE SMITH • “What [SPENCER’s] stories do wonderfully, for me, is explore the ties that bind–in families, friendships, communities, marriages–how mysterious, twisted, chafing, inescapable, and life-supporting such ties are.” —ALICE MUNRO • “A writer one puts on the ‘permanent’ shelf. These stories will be read and reread.” —JAMES DICKEY • “One of the best short story writers of our day…. Among such masters as D.H. LAWRRENCE, JAMES JOYCE, and ERNEST HEMINGWAY.” —BOOKS IN CANADA • “SPENCER’s stories dance with the illusion of happiness but swell with unspoken sadness. Humor bubbles to the surface in the most unexpected ways…but that humor, too, is fragile…. STARTING OVER is a veritable Whitman’s Sampler of bite-sized stories stitched together by their shared stillness.” ―MICHELLE MORIARITY WITT, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER • “It is as her fellow writer that I see so well what is unerring about her writing.” —EUDORA WELTY • “The good South, bestowing blessings at the cradle of storytellers, touched her most tenderly with the sense of place. ELIZABETHevokes place and evokes it acutely in that place’s own choice terms…. But equally valuable to this writer is a gift not characteristic of the Southerner: this is her capacity for cool detachment.” —EUDORA WELTY, CONT. • “MS. SPENCER is a rare and true master.” —RICHARD FORD • “I say, at the top of my lungs, that I think ELIZABETH SPENCER is a national treasure…. Oh my, what a writer she is!” —RICHARD BAUSCH • “Nobody is writing stories of the depth and delicacy of ELIZABETH SPENCER.” —GEORGE GARRETT • “One of the foremost chroniclers of the American South.”—WASHINGTON POST • “A national treasure.” —THE PARIS REVIEW • “There seems to be nothing this extraordinary writer can’t do.”—MALCOLM JONES, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “She can create life that goes beyond the page; she can show you the essence that lurks behind narrative….” —SCOTT SPENCER • “An important American writer.” —MICHAEL GORRA, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (2014) • “ELIZABETH SPENCER’s lightness of touch feels buttressed by an eagerness to grapple with the darkest struggles we all face daily.”—ALLAN GURGANUS • “MS. SPENCER has a master’s touch for rendering the spirit of the setting, not only the landscape and architecture but the traditions and social manners that make a place what it is for the people who inhabit it.” —MADISON SMARTT BELL • “Whether she takes the viewpoint of a teenage girl, a young newlywed or a middle-aged widow, her ability to capture their voices sympathetically is unerring and precise; and she conjures up, with equal ease, a variety of milieus, moving fluently from the genteel gardens of the South to the grimy streets of Montreal, from the rustic summer cabins of Lake George to the fairy-tale courtyards of Florence and Rome.”—MICHIKO KAKUTANI, NEW YORK TIMES • “A master of the genre.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “Her stories are graceful, solidly crafted and honest.”—TIME MAGAZINE • “She is, as she ever was, one of America’s best short story writers, with her invention and craft undimmed.” —WILTON BARHARDT, SLATE • “An elegant and subtle writer.”—ANN BEATTIE • “Authoritative, accomplished, astonishing.” —SHIRLEY HAZZARD • “ELIZABETH SPENCER’s stories, the elegant richness of every line, are the kind you treasure and turn to again and again.” —JILL McCORKLE • “ELIZABETH SPENCER continues to write unique and memorable stories. Her characters live and breathe.” —HILMA WOLITZER • “Grand dame of southern letters that SPENCER is, she remains a vital, passionate, contemporary-issues writer.”—BRAD HOOPER, BOOKLIST • “SPENCER belongs among the American South’s most lauded writers and is part and parcel of the literary tradition that brought us KATE CHOPIN, FLANNERY O’CONNOR, and EUDORA WELTY.” —SOUTHERN REVIEW OF BOOKS • “Often compared to the Southern voices of WILLIAM FAULKNER and EUDORA WELTY, or even to HENRY JAMES.”—NEW YORK TIMES (2019, AUTHOR’S OBITUARY) • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THE SOUTHERN WOMEN: New and Selected Fiction” AUTHOR: ELIZABETH SPENCER TYPE: HARDCOVER PAGES: 462 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: The Modern Library (New York), 2001 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “FIRST EDITION” & this Number Row: “2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1.” NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition. ISBN: 0-679-64218-8 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS.The price (23.95) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are faintly rubbed. Edges are lightly worn. Minor smudges (from normal handling) on both sides of the DJ—but the DJ is, overall, is bright & clean. CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS.Boards are square. Spine is tight. Bottom corner of front is slightly scuffed; other corners are fine. Bottom spine tip is smushed/bumped; top spine is fine. Except for a faint, small smudge on the fore edge, the textblock edges are fine. Pages are v. bright & clean with no underlining, no doodling, no tears, no foxing, & no writing. Looks unread. SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned and sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. 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