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The Night Travellers
Contributor(s): Spencer, Elizabeth (Author)

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 ISBN: 1617032409     ISBN-13: 9781617032400
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
OUR PRICE: $27.30  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | War & Military
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2011043619
Series: Banner Books
Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.24 lbs) 384 pages
 
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Elizabeth Spencer is a master storyteller (San Francisco Chronicle), her work called dazzling by Walker Percy. Whether she's writing short stories or novels, Spencer is acclaimed for holding her worlds up to light and turning them to see what they reflect. The Night Travellers, set in North Carolina and Montreal during the Vietnam War years, is her most revealing work yet.

Mary Kerr Harbison is a promising teenaged dancer when she meets Jefferson Blaise, an intellectual radical-in-the-making. He becomes a part of her life and over the objections of Mary's wealthy, abusive mother, her husband.

But although Jeff's heart is devoted to Mary, his life is devoted to protesting the Vietnam War--at first through the public rallies, later through guerilla tactics. As Jeff is drawn deeper and deeper into the movement, he and Mary are forced to go underground and eventually move to Canada. Jeff's activities keep him on the move, and Mary, living in Montreal, struggles to raise her daughter and make a life for herself.

An exploration of a dramatic period in our history, The Night Travellers is a powerful depiction of lives forever changed by political beliefs and fervidly held convictions.


Contributor Bio(s): Spencer, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Spencer is the author of nine novels, seven collections of short stories, a memoir, and a play. Her novella The Light in the Piazza (1960) was adapted for the screen in 1962 and transformed into a Tony-winning Broadway musical of the same name in 2005. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
 
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