Landscapes of the Heart : A Memoir.
Title:
Landscapes of the Heart : A Memoir.
Author:
Spencer, Elizabeth.
ISBN:
9780807145784
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (284 pages)
Series:
Voices of the South
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PART ONE -- 1. RIDING OUT -- 2. THE TOWN -- 3. THE MCCAINS -- 4. A CHRISTIAN EDUCATION -- 5. DOWN ON TEOC -- 6. MALMAISON AND THE CHOCTAW CHIEF -- 7. THE SPENCERS -- 8. RELIGION -- 9. THE OLD LADIES -- 10. FIELD OF BATTLE -- 11. SOME OLD GENTLEMEN AND OTHERS -- 12. THE DAY BEFORE -- PART TWO -- 13. MISS JENNIE AND MISS WILLIE -- 14. GROWING PAINS -- 15. SOME SOCIAL NOTES -- 16. THE POET -- 17. "THEM" -- 18. COLLEGE -- PART THREE -- 19. VANDERBILT DAYS -- 20. VANDERBILT AND BEYOND -- 21. THE MAGIC SUMMER -- 22. THE GULF COAST -- 23. NEW YORK AND BEYOND -- 24. RETURN TO ITALY -- 25. HOMECOMING -- 26. LEAVE-TAKING -- 27. WRITING IN NEW YORK -- 28. PLACES TO COME TO -- 29. THE ROAD BACK -- INDEX -- VOICES OF THE SOUTH.
Abstract:
With charm and vivid detail, the acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Spencer acquaints readers with the places and people, the pleasures and heartaches, she has known in her life. From her idyllic childhood in small-town Mississippi onward, a questioning spirit and voracity for reading and writing shape Spencer's course: her formal and informal educations at Vanderbilt and in Rome, Florence, New York, and Montreal, and her break with the culturally rigid segregated society from which she sprang; her friendships with such great writers as Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, and Robert Penn Warren; and her own many remarkable literary successes. A deeply affecting memoir by an esteemed American author, Landscapes of the Heart reveals Spencer to be both a part of and forever apart from her beloved southern roots.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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