The Light in the Piazza

Name: The Light in the Piazza
Author: Elizabeth Spencer Spencer

by Elizabeth Spencer Spencer

Novella of two Americans in Italy discovering romance and unexpected family connections

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Elizabeth Spencer Spencer

Elizabeth Spencer was a Mississippi novelist and short story writer who wrote with quiet elegance about the American South and Italy. The Light in the Piazza is her most celebrated novella.

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The Stories of Elizabeth SpencerCollection of stories spanning decades and continents, her body of short fiction