{"title":"Elizabeth Spencer","description":"Elizabeth Spencer wrote many novels, including The Light in the Piazza,  The Snare,  The Salt Line,  and The Night Travellers. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.","products":[{"product_id":"justice-unending-paperback","title":"Justice Unending - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eWithin the walls of the Bastion, it's an honor to become a host for an Unending-the bodiless, immortal spirits who rule the country. But for Faye, it meant her sister would have to die. When Faye sneaks into the Mother Duchess's manor, she just wanted to see her sister one last time. Instead, Faye finds a manor in chaos, a murdered man, and an Unending assassin named Aris who needs a new body-Faye's body-to bring the Bastion to its knees. Now Faye's harboring the Bastion's most wanted criminal. And if she wants to live, she'll have to escape the Duchess and her immortals, all while keeping Aris from harming anyone else. There's just one problem-Aris is not the villain. And now Faye is the only one who can help her stop the Duchess before anyone else-and especially Faye-has to die for the Unendings' whims.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51447304880351,"sku":"9781773391090","price":17.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/QS-oKPsZDn9781773391090.webp?v=1790239953"},{"product_id":"the-voice-at-the-back-door-paperback","title":"The Voice at the Back Door - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-1950s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a place where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly separate, are in fact historically and inevitably intertwined. When Lacey's fair-haired boy, Duncan Harper, is appointed interim sheriff, he makes public his private convictions about the equality of blacks before the law, and the combined threat and promise he represents to the understood order of things in Lacey affects almost every member of the community. In the end, Harper succeeds in pointing the way for individuals, both black and white, to find a more harmonious coexistence, but at a sacrifice all must come to regret.\u003cbr\u003eIn The Voice at the Back Door, Mississippi native Elizabeth Spencer gives form to the many voices that shaped her view of race relations while growing up, and at the same time discovers her own voice -- one of hope. Employing her extraordinary literary powers -- finely honed narrative techniques, insight into a rich, diverse cast of characters, and an unerring ear for dialect -- Spencer makes palpable the psychological milieu of a small southern town hobbled by tradition but lurching toward the dawn of the civil rights movement. First published in 1956, The Voice at the Back Door is Spencer's most highly praised novel yet, and her last to treat small-town life in Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67577341411551,"sku":"9780807119273","price":32.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HUlCxJmzAq9780807119273.webp?v=1790391317"},{"product_id":"the-salt-line-paperback","title":"The Salt Line - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Spencer's refined, sensuous writing and laser insights inform this novel, as extraordinary as her other works.\" -- Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003eAt a certain point approaching the Mississippi coast, the air fills with the salt smell of the Gulf of Mexico. For all of the characters in Elizabeth Spencer's gracefully written novel, the salt line divides past and present, memory and longing, tranquillity and danger. Crossing it places everyone in the chaotic path of Arnie Carrington, former professor and 1960s campus radical, who is on a crusade to restore the small Gulf Coast town of Notchaki after the devastation of Hurricane Camille. Threatening the enterprise is the arrival of Arnie's former colleague Lex Graham, who intends to use his wealth to squash his longtime rival's plans for the area's rejuvenation.\u003cbr\u003eThe romantic, generous Carrington attracts a wide array of devotees -- Frank Matteo, a Mafia-connected restaurateur trying to go straight; Mavis, the pregnant girlfriend Frank has rejected; Dorothy, Lex's unstable wife, who wants to resume an ancient affair with Arnie; and Lex's cherished daughter Lucinda, a coquette who fancies Arnie's idealism.\u003cbr\u003eThe characters in The Salt Line are rebuilding, reckoning with old ghosts, liberating repressed passions, and getting back into life. Elaborately and densely populated, masterfully plotted, and elegant in style, Spencer has woven a tale about the lines that bind, divide, and envelop people.\u003cbr\u003e\"Appealing... eloquent... it won't disappoint you.\" -- New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67660299665631,"sku":"9780807120293","price":31.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/A03YdkgFsn9780807120293.webp?v=1790538643"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/elizabeth-spencer.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}