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Shop nowThe Southern Woman
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Learn moreSince 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 six-decade career devoted to the art of the story and the novella—a literary event for the lover of short fiction.
Elizabeth Spencer is an American novelist and five-time recipient of the O. Henry Award for short fiction. Her novel The Light in the Piazza became a New York Times bestseller and the basis of a major motion picture in 1962 and a Broadway musical in 2005.
Hillary Huber, a Los Angeles–based voice talent with hundreds of commercials and promos under her belt, was bitten by the audiobook bug in 2005. She now records books on a regular basis and has been nominated for several Audie Awards and won numerous Earphones Awards.
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“Spencer’s world-view even in the shorter vignettes is broad, and her keen eye and ear for domestic detail will interest those with a penchant for John Cheever or Alice Munro. This career-spanning collection should firmly secure her place in the canon of American short story masters.”
“[A] Southern writer whose best fiction merits comparison with the work of Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty.”
“Narrator Hillary Huber adeptly crafts new voices for each story, offering an aristocratic drawl one moment and a folksy twang the next. Characters burst to life in her evenly paced performance…Graceful prose and a velvet-voiced narrator make this collection noteworthy.”
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