Elizabeth Spencer is one of America's outstanding writers of fiction. She shares the heritage and reputation of important Southern writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and Eudora Welty, yet Spencer consistently transcends her roots to explore the unbounded territories of human lives. The thirty-three stories in this collection are testaments to her acclaimed ability to observe character and evoke a sense of place and atmosphere in settings as varied as Venice, Montreal, Rome, and the Mississippi of her childhood.
Elizabeth Spencer is one of America's outstanding writers of fiction. She shares the heritage and reputation of important Southern writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, and Eudora Welty, yet Spencer consistently transcends her roots to explore the unbounded territories of human lives. The thirty-three stories in this collection are testaments to her acclaimed ability to observe character and evoke a sense of place and atmosphere in settings as varied as Venice, Montreal, Rome, and the Mississippi of her childhood.