The Southern Woman, Elizabeth Spencer
The Southern Woman, Elizabeth Spencer
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The Southern Woman
New and Selected Fiction

Author: Elizabeth Spencer

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 19 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/19/2009

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

Since 1944, when she published her first story, Elizabeth Spencer has been acclaimed as a writer of short fiction in the great tradition of Welty, Chopin, and Mansfield.The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction, her first collection in almost fifteen years, restores to print the author's most masterful stories and novellas, including "The Light in the Piazza, and publishes more than ten new stories for the first time. This collection celebrates a sixdecade career devoted to the art of the story and the novella, a literary event for the lover of short fiction.

About Elizabeth Spencer

Elizabeth Spencer was born in Mississippi in 1921. Her first book, Fire in the Morning, was published in 1948, but it was the publication of The Light in the Piazza in 1960 that brought her widespread acclaim, becoming a New York Times bestseller and the basis of a major motion picture. Her writing is distinguished by fine craftsmanship and intense plotting that reveals the essential nature of the characters. She is a five-time recipient of the O. Henry Award for short fiction. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Olivia on January 05, 2025

really liked the new stories—the emotions were heightened and the characters more complex. all were good but didn’t stand out......more

Goodreads review by Yvonne on January 08, 2020

Just great stories. Some nice and comforting, some surprising. Distinct characters, plots that may or may not take you home. Read more Spencer.......more

Goodreads review by Elevate Difference on December 13, 2009

I grew up in the so-called New South, where there are sweet tea and skyscrapers, Gone with the Wind screenings in posh movie theaters, and Faulkner reading groups, but no stereotypical southern drawl and no cornbread. In an age where regional identity yields to interstates and chain hotels, can I st......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on June 08, 2015

Cette nouvelles d’Elizabeth Spencer, une très digne héritier spirituelle d’Henri James à l’écriture sobre et élégante, au style tout autant elliptique et mystérieux.......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on July 15, 2018

I'm not really a short story person, and I don't want to finish this one. I thought the dark undertones of the stories I read were fascinating, in the 'I'm not sure I want to read or understand this but I can't look away' kind of fascinating. I suppose they are true to life, in that there is so much......more

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