Elizabeth Spencer

No Place for an Angel

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of five O. Henry Awards and the 2013 Rea Prize for Short Fiction, Elizabeth Spencer has long been considered a master of the short story, yet her novels are no less a showcase for her uncanny ability to depict how "twisted, chafing, inescapable, and life-supporting" (Alice Munro) the ties that bind families and marriages are. Nowhere are these skills more evident than in her fourth novel, No Place for an Angel, a Jamesian portrait of Cold War America that follows two fracturing marriages-Catherine and Jerry Sasser, a Texas heiress and a ruthless political fixer, and Irene and Charles Waddell, a worldly pair involved with American policymaking in Italy-as they cross paths from the oil fields of Texas to Rome and New York. Witty, mordant, but above all deeply perceptive of the secret emotional worlds of her characters, Spencer portrays the limitless ambition of the postwar world, the soaring rise of her characters, and, finally, their diminishing fortunes, which lead to smaller but firmer destinies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781631490637
• ISBN-10: 163149063X
• Artikelnr.: 41563311

Autorenporträt

Winner of the PEN/Malamud prize and five O. Henry awards, Elizabeth Spencer (1921-2019) was the author of nine novels, six short story collections, a memoir, and a play.