Elizabeth Spencer, the acclaimed author of several novels and short-story collections, is a five-time recipient of the O. Henry Award for short fiction. She was brought up in Mississippi during the Depression, at a time when tales of the Civil War lingered and segregation seemed permanent. Spencer’s wanderings took her to Italy in 1953, to Montreal in 1958, and back home to the South in 1986. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
“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
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