Starting Over: Stories $100.00
New York, NY: Norton (2014)
Near fine in decorated wrappers.
On the Gulf $65.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press (1991)
Near fine in dust jacket. Signed by Elizabeth Spencer.
Six stories by Elizabeth Spencer set on the Gulf Coast with line drawings throughout by Walter Anderson.
On the Gulf $175.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press (1991)
One of 26 lettered copies signed by Elizabeth Spencer. The book is fine in beige linen cloth and and housed in the publisher’s blue cardboard slipcase with a little wear.
Six stories by Elizabeth Spencer set on the Gulf Coast with line drawings throughout by Walter Anderson.
Starting Over: Stories $50.00
New York, NY: Liveright Publishing (2014)
On the release of her first novel in 1948, Elizabeth Spencer was immediately championed by Robert Penn Warren and Eudora Welty, setting off a remarkable career as one of the great literary voices of the American South. Her career, now spanning seven decades, continues here with nine new stories.
In Starting Over, Spencer returns to the deep emotional fault lines and unseen fractures that lie just beneath the veneer of happy family life. In “Sightings,” a troubled daughter suddenly returns to the home of the father she accidently blinded during her parents’ bitter separation; in “Blackie,” the reappearance of a son from a divorcee’s first marriage triggers a harrowing confrontation with her new family; while in “The Wedding Visitor,” a cousin travels home only to find himself entwined in the events leading up to a family wedding.
In these nine stories, Spencer excels at revealing the flawed fabric of human relations.