Hale nancy 1908 1988 (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: FINE. First printing. The fourth novel by this prolific - and, in her time, very popular - writer, the author of seven novels, two memoirs, a biography and more than 100 short stories, of which ten which received the O.Henry award. This novel, about a Vermont girl's married life in Virginia, is like almost all of her work, rooted in her own experiences. Most of her books are long out of print, but in 2019 a collection of her short stories was published by the Library of America and some of her work was reissued in the Pleiades Press Unsung Masters series. 413 pp. Very near fine in turquoise cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dustjacket with some minor edgewear.…

Hale, Nancy, 1908-1988. Where the light falls: selected stories of Nancy Hale. Edited by Lauren Groff. New York: The Library of America, 2019, xxi, 351pp., very good dust-jacket, cover price $26.00, like new, fresh attractive copy. "Haunting, vivid, and wonderfully subversive, Hale's stories typically concern women recognizable to all of us--sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, deceptively ordinary, navigating their way uncertainly through life" - CONTENTS: Introduction / by Lauren Groff -- The earliest dreams -- The double house -- Midsummer -- To the north -- Crimson autumn -- That woman -- A place to hide in -- Book review -- Those are as brothers -- The marching feet -- Sunday--1913 -- Who lived and died believing -- Some day I'll find you. -- On the beach -- Inside -- The empress's ring -- The bubble -- Miss August -- How would you like to be born. -- Outside -- A slow boat to China -- Flotsam -- Rich people -- Sunday lunch -- The most elegant drawing room in Europe -- Sources. ISBN 9781598536423.…