Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale

Posted on 10 March 2017 by Nancy Hale

Lauren Groff invites a new generation of readers to rediscover the haunting stories of a neglected mid century masterA teenage girl in Connecticut driven to near delirium over her burgeoning sexuality A twenty something New Yorker transplanted to a small Virginia community who boldly befriends the town pariah A New England widow in search of alcohol and excitement while babysitting her grandson A Maryland socialite who has built a secret bomb shelter that becomes the center of her imaginative life These are some of the characters who inhabit Nancy Hale s lush fiction 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 Nancy Hale was one of the most accomplished short story artists of her era, winner of ten O Henry Awards and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1960s But by the time of her death in 1988, this remarkable writer, so far ahead of her time in her depiction of complex women, was largely forgotten Now Lauren Groff reintroduces this modern master with a selection of twenty five of her best stories brilliant short fiction that encompasses childhood and adolescence, marriage and motherhood, desire and infidelity, madness and memory Where the Light Falls reveals Hale as a gifted stylist a painter in light and shadow and an acute observer of modern American life. Download Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale – kino-fada.fr What a stunning collection of short fiction I truly enjoyed every one Groff did an excellent job introducing and arranging this collection of 25 stories by the incredible talented late Nancy Hale, a writer who has vastly been forgotten In these stories we meet characters that are so utterly human, beautiful and flawed, haunted and real as they try to navigate their contemporary American lives Even though these were written years ago I found them ever so relevant today With themes of marr What a stunning collection of short fiction I truly enjoyed every one Groff did an excellent job introducing and arranging this collection of 25 stories by the incredible talented late Nancy Hale, a writer who has vastly been forgotten In thes...pw 8 26 19

10 March 2017

Nancy Hale