EAN: 9781598537482

WHERE THE LIGHT FALLS SELECTED STORIES - NANCY ...

Rediscover the masterful stories of a midcentury artist whose multifaceted portraits of women
were generations ahead of her time A stunning  crystalline collection. -Vogue Nancy Hale was
considered one of the preeminent short story artists of her era  a prolific writer whose long
association with The New Yorker rivaled that of her contemporary John Cheever. But few readers
today will recognize her name. Acclaimed author Lauren Groff has selected twenty-five of Hale's
best stories  presented here in the first career-spanning edition of this astonishingly gifted
writer's work. These stories seem ahead of their time in their depiction of women--complicated
characters  sometimes fragile  possibly wicked  often remarkable in their apparent ordinariness
from an adolescent girl in Connecticut driven into delirium over her burgeoning sexuality in
Midsummer  to a twenty-something New Yorker experiencing culture shock during a visit to a
friend's house in Virginia in That Woman  to a New England widow in search of alcohol while
babysitting her grandson in Flotsam. Other stories touch on memories of childhood  the intense
trauma of electroshock therapy  and the spectre of white supremacy. Haunting  vivid  and
subversive in the best sense  Where the Light Falls is nothing less than a major literary
rediscovery.

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