Starting Over: Stories

By Elizabeth Spencer

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871406810
• ISBN13: 9780871406811
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Liveright
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 0.8" x 6.1"