No Place for an Angel - A Novel - Softcover

Spencer, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 163149063X ISBN 13: 9781631490637

Verlag: W W Norton & Co Ltd, 2016

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Elizabeth Spencer seems to have spent her life watching, observing, always paying close attention, and for her it's the whole truth or nothing. As far as I can tell, she never missed a thing.--Malcolm Jones

She has an uncanny ability to let the human dilemmas play themselves out on a social plane. Elizabeth Spencer's lightness of touch feels buttressed by an eagerness to grapple with the darkest struggles we all face daily.--Allan Gurganus

Spencer [is] an elegant and subtle writer...Like Chekhov, the moments of most acute misery--those achingly common things that nearly kill us all--are offstage...which makes the cumulative effect all the more alarming.--Ann Beattie

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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 (New York Times Book Review). 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 (Alice Munro) 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."

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• Verlag: W W Norton & Co Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 163149063X
• ISBN 13: 9781631490637
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304