The Voice at the Back Door

by Elizabeth Spencer

Book Overview

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080711927X
• ISBN13: 9780807119273
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Voice at the Door

As a Southern Woman writer, Elizabeth Spencer explores the issues familiar to her during her childhood and her adult life in this intricate novel. Race, friendship, loyalty, secrecy, and contradiction all make this novel's characters come alive in a way I have seldom experienced in a first-time read. Spencer completely sucked me in and wrapped me up in her plot. I thought it was fabulous, of the caliber of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." It is a book I will enjoy picking up for the rest of my life.