The Southern Woman (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Spencer
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: The American South, Italy, New York, and Montreal
- Principal Characters: Marilee Summerall
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, Interracial relationships, Ghosts or apparitions, Truthfulness and falsehood, Mental retardation, Italy or Italians
- Locales: South (U.S.), New York, Montreal, Canada, Italy
Elizabeth Spencer’s short fiction is luminous in its depiction of time and place. This collection of her stories and the novella The Light in the Piazza is categorized according to these qualities. It is divided into four sections: The South, Italy, Up North, and New Stories. Although the Italian novella is perhaps her most widely read short fiction, the stories set in the southern United States stand out as the strongest of her works. It is clear that she knows this landscape intimately and instinctively, in the way that one can only know the world of one’s childhood...
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