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No Place for an Angel

Elizabeth Spencer

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Hailed as Elizabeth Spencer's best novel , this lost masterpiece of mid-century America finally returns to print.

At the age of ninety-three, Elizabeth Spencer is once again making news in the literary world. A master of the short story form, Spencer was awarded the 2013 Rea Prize for Short Fiction, and her latest collection Starting Over was hailed as "a work of genius" . While Spencer is a five-time O. Henry Award winner, her novels also showcase her uncanny ability to depict how "twisted, chafing, inescapable, and life-supporting" the ties that bind families and marriages are. Nowhere are her skills more evident than in No Place for an Angel, a Jamesian portrait of Cold War 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, Spencer's novel follows the Sassers and their friends and traces the decline of the fortunate and the search for redemption.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Liveright

Release: May 04, 2015

ISBN: 163149063X

ISBN 13: 9781631490637

No Place for an Angel

Elizabeth Spencer

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Hailed as Elizabeth Spencer's best novel , this lost masterpiece of mid-century America finally returns to print.

At the age of ninety-three, Elizabeth Spencer is once again making news in the literary world. A master of the short story form, Spencer was awarded the 2013 Rea Prize for Short Fiction, and her latest collection Starting Over was hailed as "a work of genius" . While Spencer is a five-time O. Henry Award winner, her novels also showcase her uncanny ability to depict how "twisted, chafing, inescapable, and life-supporting" the ties that bind families and marriages are. Nowhere are her skills more evident than in No Place for an Angel, a Jamesian portrait of Cold War 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, Spencer's novel follows the Sassers and their friends and traces the decline of the fortunate and the search for redemption.

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Liveright

Release: May 04, 2015

ISBN: 163149063X

ISBN 13: 9781631490637

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