DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Landscapes of the Heart

A Memoir

Elizabeth Spencer author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Louisiana State University Press

Published:1st Aug '03

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Landscapes of the Heart cover

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.

  • Winner of Mississippi Authors Award (Nonfiction) 1999

ISBN: 9780807129166

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 333g

368 pages