Elizabeth Spencer
Author
Series
Library of America volume 344
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial politics in the world of Jim Crow Mississippi; the beloved classic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Banner Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. Collected in this volume are The Light in the Piazza, which is her signature piece, and six other Italian tales in which her American characters encounter and respond to the mysteries of Italian mores.
Author
Publisher
Livewright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of 1950's America that follows the fracturing marriage of Catherine and Jerry Sasser, a Texas heiress and a ruthless political fixer. From the oil fields of Texas to Rome and New York, it follows the Sassers and their friends and traces the decline of the fortunate and the search for redemption.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Anxiety Cure is a warm, wise, and thoroughly wonderful book for people with anxiety disorders and for everyone who cares about them."
-- From the Foreword by Jerilyn Ross, M.A., L.I.C.S.W., President, Anxiety Disorders Association of America, and author of Triumph Over Fear
"The Anxiety Cure is sure to enjoy substantial popularity and will be used widely by anxious people, their families, and therapists."
-- R. Reid Wilson,
Series
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The Palazzo Vecchio. The Uffizi Gallery. Michelangelo's David. Meg Johnson is eager to discover the glories of Italy with her beautiful daughter Clara, who was mentally impaired in a childhood accident. But Clara discovers something more--love--with an ardent Italian who mistakes her limitations for charming naiveté. Clara is so happy and fulfilled. Should Margaret reveal her daughter's secret?"--Container.