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      The Southern Woman

      by Elizabeth Spencer
      Published
      Aug 2009
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      480
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      A stunning collection of stories from "one of the foremost chroniclers of the American South" (The Washington Post), including the novella "Light in the Piazza"—featuring an introduction by Afia Atakora, author of Conjure Women
       
      Over the course of a fifty-year career, Elizabeth Spencer wrote masterly, lyrical fiction about southerners. An outstanding storyteller who was unjustly denied a Pulitzer for her anti-racist novel The Voice at the Back Door despite being the unanimous choice of the judges, she is recognized as one of the most accomplished writers of short fiction, infusing her work with elegant precision and empathy. 

      The Southern Woman collects the best of Spencer's short stories, displaying her range of place—the agrarian South, Italy in the decade after World War II, the gray-sky North, and, finally, the contemporary Sun Belt.

      The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance

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