The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales

by Elizabeth Spencer, Robert Phillips

Overview

Elizabeth Spencer is captivated by Italy. Some of her most acclaimed work is set there. Collected in this volume are "The Light in the Piazza, " which is her signature piece, and six other Italian tales in which her American characters encounter and respond to the mysteries of Italian mores. Her plots are so alluring and enigmantic that the great Boccaccio would have been charmed by their delightful ironies and their sinister contrasts of dark and light. Elizabeth's Spencer's exceptional artisty has merited renown for her as one of America's best writers of short stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878058372
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	03/01/1996
Series:	Banner Books
Pages:	239
Sales rank:	548,919
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) is author of nine novels, seven collections of short stories, a memoir, and a play. Her novella The Light in the Piazza (1960) was adapted for the screen in 1962 and transformed into a Broadway musical of the same name in 2005. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.