Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale

Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale

Lauren Groff invites a new generation of readers to rediscover the haunting stories of a neglected mid-century master

AÂ teenage girl in Connecticut driven to near delirium over her burgeoning sexuality. A twenty-something New Yorker transplanted to a small Virginia community who boldly befriends the town pariah. A New England widow in search of alcohol and excitement while babysitting her grandson. A Maryland socialite who has built a secret bomb shelter that becomes the center of her imaginative life.Â

These are some of the characters who inhabit Nancy Haleâ€™s lush fiction. Haunting, vivid, and wonderfully subversive, Haleâ€™s stories typically concern women recognizable to all of usâ€”sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, deceptively ordinary, navigating their way uncertainly through life.Â

Nancy Hale was one of the most accomplished short story artists of her era, winner of ten O. Henry Awards and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1960s. But by the time of her death in 1988, this remarkable writer, so far ahead of her time in her depiction of complex women, was largely forgotten. Now Lauren Groff reintroduces this modern master with a selection of twenty-five of her best storiesâ€” brilliant short fiction that encompasses childhood and adolescence, marriage and motherhood, desire and infidelity, madness and memory.Â

Where the Light Falls reveals Hale as a gifted stylistâ€”a painter in light and shadowâ€”and an acute observer of modern American life.
Country USA
Brand Library of America
Manufacturer Library of America
Binding Hardcover
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2019-09-24
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781598536423

Country	USA
Brand	Library of America
Manufacturer	Library of America
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2019-09-24
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781598536423

Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale

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